Senior Associate, Climate Change Initiative
Carina holds a Master of Science in Environment and Sustainability Management from Georgetown University, where she studied business strategy, environmental policy, environmental science, and communication and leadership.
She also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Urbanism from Yale University in 2020, focusing on topics such as race, class, and gender in the American city, the politics of space and its relationship to non-conforming bodies, as well as housing and homelessness, and the intersection of housing security with social-political issues affecting public health.
She joined the CPI team in 2021.
Carina is a Climate Fresk facilitator. She has worked on a variety of projects to create more supportive temporary shelter for unhoused youth, adults and families
At Living Cities, she supported a range of internal and external projects around municipal level accelerators for racial equity in cities, quantification of indirect programmatic impacts, and internal engagement with local CBEs.
At CPI, she is passionate about innovative, safer, greener waste management: she has touched close to 6 city projects at CPI that pertain to this!
She has also worked on 3+ city projects that pertain to making downtowns more livable for residents, and she loves how this ties directly to her work in urbanism. This often ends up including green transportation!
In her leisure time, Carina loves to cook, host dinner parties, garden, explore new places and now, run on occasion.