Brandon Epperson '18

2018 Sustainability Fellow - Social Risks in Supply Chains Database | NewEarth B
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Brandon holds a BA in Sociology from Central Washington University and recently completed an MS in Analytics and Data Science at UNH. Brandon’s fellowship work was mentored by Greg Norris and Catherine Benoit-Norris of New Earth B, a B Corp located in York, Maine that provides platforms for sustainability assessment. Brandon worked on the Social Hotspots Database, an amalgamation of data from myriad sources used for social risk assessment and supply chain analysis. He performed data processing, analysis, and modeling to lay the groundwork for dashboards which will measure social risk in 140 country/regions and 57 economic sectors. The dashboards will be used by clients wishing to view the social risks of their own suppliers and their suppliers’ suppliers to make more socially sustainable and informed decisions related to their own products and services.