Webinar: Advancing Living Lab Through Impactful Partnerships
This webinar was rescheduled from Feb. 25 to July 15, 2026.
This session will offer an interactive and comprehensive exploration of the key drivers, successes, and hurdles of transforming a campus into a living lab for sustainability. Stanford University’s recent expansion and formalization of its Living Lab initiatives will be highlighted, with pathways for engagement in three main areas: research partnerships, student experiential learning, and course collaborations. In the 23-24 academic year, Stanford’s Office of Sustainability launched a new living laboratory fellowship program, and formalized its partnership with the new Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. The session will cover funding and governance strategies, supporting students to develop change and project management skills, and effective ways to communicate success and share results. Additionally, the workshop will facilitate a rich exchange of experiences, encouraging participants to draw inspiration and forge connections with peers engaged in similar efforts nationwide.
Presenters
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Kristin Parineh, Director of Sustainability, Stanford University Kristin has been advancing Stanford University’s sustainability agenda since 2012 and currently serves as the Director of Sustainability. Kristin’s work aims to transform the university’s climate and waste future and support the next generation of sustainability change management leaders. Kristin’s team is responsible for university sustainability storytelling and reporting, waste operations, living laboratory programs, culture change, climate and waste goals, and their regulatory and voluntary compliance. Prior to joining Stanford, she served as the first Sustainability Planner for the City of Palo Alto, where she developed and enforced the city’s green building and sustainable development policies, and as the Assistant Director for the Collaborative for High Performance Schools, a similar non-profit to AASHE, but for K-12 schools. She also has work experience at both the U.S. and California Environmental Protection Agency, and Natural Resources Defense Council. She received a BA in Communications and a BS in Environmental Design from the University of California, Davis and a Masters in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from Columbia University. |