40 Under 40: Honey Herman

If you talk to Honey Herman about anything, the first thing you will notice is her passion.

This is true both in both her Jewish life and career, the latter of which is spent with Aulick Engineering, a firm primarily made of stormwater engineers – where she was awarded Rookie of the Year. Herman describes her career trajectory as a surprising but natural route from the intersection of an early interest in environmental science (inspired by media such as “The Lorax” and “Ferngully”) and a “math-type brain.” When she met an environmental engineer, she decided “I want to do that when I grow up.”

Through the company, Herman is involved in multiple charitable initiatives, spanning from the local to the international. In Guatemala, she has been involved in efforts to provide better access to clean drinking water, while at home she has volunteered at DeKalb Animal Shelter and the food pantry at Toco Hills Community Alliance with her company’s volunteer organization Aulick Cares – in which which she also involved in the philanthropic committee.

Also heavily focused on Jewish life, Herman is a current Moishe House Resident living in the Brookhaven Moishe House. She described how she got started living in the space, and how she wants to pay it forward.

“I really had a hard time establishing where I felt like I fit in in the Jewish community. I kept going to all these different things, and I would go, and I wouldn’t make any friends. [But I realized] I’m a really talkative person, I’m a pretty bubbly person, if I’m struggling, I know other people are struggling.”

She has also been active in the Atlanta Jewish X-perience (AJX), in which she is a member of Shabbos club, been the host of many events, and sat on fundraising committees.

She wanted to thank her parents, Susan and Steven, her sister, Lily, and her partner and boyfriend, Zane.