Social Innovators in Residence: Lisbeth Shepherd

Lisbeth Shepherd is Entrepreneur in Residence at MIT's designX and Visiting Lecturer at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. Her work focuses on how "climate corps" in cities can promote environmental and economic justice.  Shepherd co-founded the Green City Force (GCF) in 2009 to address the dual imperatives of youth unemployment and climate change.She previously coordinated the Clean Energy Corps working group at Green for All, and co-founded Unis-Cité, the leading national youth service program in France. She is an Echoing Green alum, Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow, Audubon “Woman Greening the City,” and White House Youth Jobs+ Champion of Change. Lisbeth's interests center on "climate corps" the organized efforts of young adults, in particular those in frontline communities most affected by climate change and unemployment, that provide a platform for service, training and leadership for young people on a path to engaging careers in the green economy." Lisbeth was the Spring 2022 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE. Follow Lisbeth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisbeth-shepherd-ab53555/ and Twitter: @LFShepherd Read about Green City Force: https://greencityforce.org/ and Uni-Cité: https://www.uniscite.fr/ Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva Music: Guilhem Tamisier Art work: Guilhem Tamisier

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