Kristen Patterson
- Director, Drawdown Lift
- United States
- Member since 2022
Kristen P. Patterson is the Director of Drawdown Lift—a program of Project Drawdown focused on advancing climate solutions that improve human well-being and alleviate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Kristen’s service as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger inspired her passion for working at the nexus of community development, public health, and environmental conservation. Prior to joining Project Drawdown in January 2021, her distinguished career includes leading PRB’s People, Health, Planet program; working for The Nature Conservancy’s Africa Program, where she helped launch the Tuungane project in western Tanzania; serving as a USAID Population-Environment Fellow in Madagascar; and conducting research on farmer-herder conflict resolution in Niger.
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