Karen Jackson

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Chief Innovation Officer and Program Director
West Coast Green

Karen has developed community dance, art and ecology programs for for the past seven years. Her work has infused life into projects with The UNEP Tunza International Children's Conference on The Environment, The Foundation for Civic Leadership, The San Francisco Institute of Architecture and the Downtown Berkeley YMCA before she landed at West Coast Green. A passion for the Arts and her studies of Environmental Science at Harvard are the foundation for her devotion to the mainstreaming of green building. Through a greening of the built environment, the place where art and science combine to shape our societies, she believes we can procure ecological, social and economic sustainability. Karen brings playfulness and dedication to her work at West Coast Green and is excited to be part of the team that is nurturing a healthy lifestyle into the essence communities world wide.