Kristin Parineh

About Kristen: Kristin has been advancing Stanford University’s sustainability agenda since 2012, and currently serves as Stanford's Director of Sustainability. Kristin’s work aims to transform the university's climate and waste future and support the next generation of sustainability change management leaders. Kristin’s team is responsible for university sustainability storytelling and reporting, waste operations, living laboratory programs, culture change, climate and waste goals, and their regulatory and voluntary compliance. Kristin leads a course in the Doerr School of Sustainability on Organizational Change Management. Prior to joining Stanford, she served as the first Sustainability Planner for the City of Palo Alto, where she developed and enforced the city’s green building and sustainable development policies. She also has work experience at both the U.S. and California Environmental Protection Agency, and Natural Resources Defense Council. She received a BA in Communications and a BS in Environmental Design from the University of California, Davis and a Masters in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from Columbia University.

Talk title: Stanford as a Living Laboratory for Scaling Sustainability Innovation
Stanford is globally recognized for its sustainability performance. Stanford is one of the largest campus's in the country, and uniquely operates its own energy, water and waste systems. With great collaboration across the university, the campus has been leveraged as a living laboratory to demonstrate impactful solutions to pressing climate and waste challenges that are optimized for Stanford and scalable for the world. Join Stanford's Director of Sustainability to hear about the innovative solutions they have implemented to transform our waste and climate future, and what challenges they are addressing next.