Jenny Carney on democratizing access to green building benefits

Chicago-based Jenny Carney works with WSP’s Sustainability, Energy and Climate team supporting corporate sustainability teams and project work. Her ecology/field science background keeps her grounded in empirical data (and wishing the building industry could get more rigorous about that data). She works on the emissions profiles of existing buildings (which, she points out, the people who use them call “buildings”) and is deeply involved in a workforce development program that seeks to bring public housing residents into jobs related to building use and maintenance. Jenny has found satisfaction, she says, in helping to facilitate mashups of people and perspectives that result in better outcomes.