Jenny Carney

Senior Sustainability Director

As the Senior Sustainability Advisor, Jenny (she/her) focuses on connecting corporate sustainability professionals to equitable sustainable infrastructure development opportunities, leveraging her 20 years of experience in green building and sustainability consulting.

Jenny has worked in the realm of sustainability as a consultant to companies and institutions, pivoting from her early work as a field ecologist. With deep experience in standards development, ESG inventorying and goal setting, and scalable program design and initiatives, she has been at the vanguard of leading corporate sustainability practices. Her current focus is integrating social and environmental justice considerations into clean energy & circularity transition plans. In 2022, she led technical contributions to the City of Chicago’s equity-focused Climate Action Plan and co-authored Microsoft’s Environmental Justice in Renewable Energy Procurement position paper.

Jenny has a BA in Biology from Lawrence University and a MS in Forest Ecosystem Ecology from the University of Wisconsin.