Jamie Alexander - Director of Drawdown Labs at Project Drawdown

This is Candor

In today’s episode of This is Candor I’m joined by Jamie Alexander, founding Director of Drawdown Labs at Project Drawdown. “Drawdown” refers to the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Project Drawdown has created a comprehensive list of the most substantive solutions to global warming to get us to Drawdown.
Jamie and I talk about her career path that led her to Project Drawdown, solutions to the climate crisis that Jamie is most excited about, and why we should have hope that we can achieve Drawdown.
Guest Bio:
Jamie Beck Alexander is a solutions-oriented corporate climate advocate, coalition builder, and founding Director of Drawdown Labs. Jamie joined the Project Drawdown team from Ceres, where she led corporate engagement on the west coast, working with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets and leveraging their influence in support of strong climate and clean energy policies. At Ceres, she launched a public-private partnership with the City of San Francisco and Bay Area companies to identify and deploy collaborative solutions to decarbonize the transportation sector.
Previously, Jamie served as a Civil and Foreign Service Officer with US Agency for International Development (USAID), implementing projects to combat malaria and other infectious diseases, serving in Bangladesh, India and Tanzania. At USAID, she led an agency-wide effort to better integrate local solutions and voices into foreign aid programming and decision-making. She has also worked with the UN Office of the Secretary-General, the design firm IDEO, and indigenous peoples in the US, Amazon and Andes. Bringing this multidisciplinary background and solutions focus to bear, Jamie leads Drawdown Lab's work with companies to deploy climate solutions at scale.
📍 Oakland, USA
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🎙️ Hosted by Megan Doepker
📝 Show notes: https://www.thisiscandor.com/podcast/jamie-alexander

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