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As Co-Executive Director of the California Green Business Network, Lacey serves communities throughout the State of California supporting community-level economic development and a more sustainable and environmentally-responsive small-business sector. Lacey began her career in municipal government, writing and developing the first Climate Action Plan for the City of Monterey. She then worked for 12 years in Higher Education as the Director of Sustainability at UC Santa Cruz and CSU Monterey Bay, where she developed and supported innovative initiatives, integrated sustainability into long-term plans and policies and helped build a culture of sustainability within an institutional setting. She wrote the City of Seaside’s Municipal Plastic Ordinance in her role as founding Chair of the Seaside Environmental Commission. She recently completed a Chief Sustainability Officer credential from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was 2010 Fulbright Researcher in Indonesia, where she examined local implementation of the National Sustainable Development Policy.
BA in Global Studies, University of Minnesota
MA in International Environmental Policy, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
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A series of international experiences taught Middlebury Institute alumna Lacey Raak MAIEP ’08 that lasting change begins at the local level, where today she is leading efforts to implement environmentally sound policies and practices in her own community on California’s Central Coast.
