Jennifer Caldwell

Director at Project Drawdown

Jennifer Caldwell heads a foundation focused on furthering best practices in education and global environmental solutions and serves on the non-profit boards of Drawdown and The Nature Conservancy in California, as well as Ten Strands’ Advisory Council and the Expansion Cabinet of Emerge America. She is an emeritus trustee of the Exploratorium, Environmental Working Group, Katherine Delmar Burke School, and the San Francisco Ballet, where she has steered strategic, fundraising, and brand communications initiatives.

After heading marketing at The Nature Conservancy in San Francisco, Jennifer founded and led Hope to Action, national non-profit promoting sustainability actions by women, and initiated the Bay Area Green Schools Alliance, the first forum for regional schools to share sustainability best practices. Prior to her work in the non-profit sector, her career spanned publishing, media communications, and broadcasting in New York and Silicon Valley, including roles as a senior producer at Hewlett Packard’s Media Technology Group and executive producer at Paramount Pictures Interactive.