People & Culture

Philosophy


We aim to serve the vast needs, experiences, and abilities of our members and prospective members from all corners of the great state of California, to nurture connection & professional growth within our organization and in the communities we call home.

Initiatives


  • 2025 AEP Member Survey (Live in October 2025)
  • Rebooted Instagram and LinkedIn Programming
  • Next Early Career Meetups: 11/11, 12/9, and 1/34 @ 12pm (every second Tuesday)
  • Next Rural Connex Meetup: 11/13, 12/11, and 1/8 @ 12pm (every second Thursday)
  • Student Engagement Program in Development
  • AEP Storytelling Project — Coming Soon!
  • Monthly People & Culture Committee meetings

If you are a current member interested in the history of People & Culture at AEP, contact us through our membership email address and we can share more.


An Update from the President


October 2025

Closing Out the Year.

What a year it’s been so far. We’ve seen changes, and challenges. We’ve navigated new starts & new beginnings, and the work of maintaining what we’ve built. Yet consistently, we’ve done it all together — human connection is proving to be our most valuable asset in an uncertain time.

If we are to continue with human connection at the center of our People & Culture work, we are called upon to reach out and ask all of you if our work is rising to the occasion and serving your needs. 

By now you should all have received an email invitation to vote in the upcoming Board elections, and to take part in the 2025 AEP Members Survey. The Survey is crucial to our organizational sustainability and is the first of several steps we must take to approach the future with care, alignment, and resilience. 

(You can also find the 2025 Survey by logging in to the AEP Member site and following the path, Member Menu > Engagement > Surveys)

Do you feel heard, respected, and encouraged? Do you feel each of those things across the membership lifecycle? What has your experience been with our processes, programs, events, communications, and outreach? 

These are the important questions that we ask in the Survey. If we are going to continue the work of creating a stronger, more robust organization, we have to invest in the work of care that each of you needs. 

The Survey will look different from what you have done before. In this shift toward People & Culture, we might look at things this way:

  • Every one of us is an edge case. 
  • Every one of our experiences is a stress-test on how we function. 
  • If each of you doesn’t feel heard, respected, and encouraged, it means we have more work to do to ensure that we are serving the full range of needs, experiences, and talents of our members.

This is how we do our part to serve the world as it exists — an expansive quilt of experiences, all meeting at a single point in common as the Association of Environmental Professionals. 

Thank you all for taking the Survey and providing your perspectives. 

I am, and have always been, proud and grateful to do this work side by side with all of you. 

In community, 

Mindy Fogg
AEP Board President