Terry Duffina
Affiliate Faculty, MPA in Sustainability
Terry Duffina is a sustainability, energy and compliance leader with more than two decades of experience driving impact across agriculture, healthcare, aerospace, and technology sectors. She brings this diverse perspective to the classroom, helping students connect global sustainability strategy with practical, real-world application.
Terry has advised senior leadership at major organizations, led national and regional coalitions, and contributed to publications advancing sustainability best practices. Her experience includes managing multi-million-dollar programs, building high-performing teams, and developing strategies that deliver measurable results across multiple geographies.
A frequent public speaker and former non-profit board member, Terry also served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania early in her career, an experience that continues to shape her collaborative, solutions-focused approach to leadership.
As a Middlebury Institute alumna, she is passionate about helping students bridge theory and practice through applied learning, strategic thinking, and systems-level collaboration.
Areas of Interest
Terry is inspired by the opportunity to grow the number of sustainability-minded professionals working within traditional professions. She believes a truly sustainable future depends on every team understanding the influence they have on environmental and social outcomes. Terry brings curiosity and enthusiasm to new ideas and strives to inspire others to improve their workplaces from within. Her goal is to help students become change agents who can turn skepticism into collaboration—so that when it’s time to propose a sustainability initiative, the response is, “How can we make this happen?”
Areas of Expertise:
Terry’s expertise spans sustainability strategy, corporate energy management, and supply chain environmental performance. She helps organizations build the business case for sustainability initiatives and partners with finance teams to secure funding solutions. Her experience includes carbon accounting, greenhouse gas reduction strategies, ESG reporting, and integrating sustainability into core business decisions. Terry also advises on organizational design, multi-geography planning, and stakeholder engagement. In the classroom, she helps students develop the skills to design and implement measurable, impactful sustainability initiatives in complex corporate and cross-sector environments.
Academic Degrees
- BA in International Business, Minnesota State University-Moorhead
- MA in International Environmental Policy, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
- MBA in International Management, Middlebury Institute of International Studies