Caroline is a sustainability professional who is hellbent on pursuing a circular economy. She admits to being a child who was obsessed with trash after seeing a video in her fourth-grade science class about landfills. She became fascinated by the idea and inefficiency of waste, and also quickly became concerned with the threat of climate change on the world’s most vulnerable people and ecosystems.

Caroline attended Georgetown University for her bachelor’s degree, where she was a founding member of the student-run campaign to divest Georgetown’s endowment from fossil fuels. After graduating, Caroline provided consulting for federal government agencies at Deloitte Consulting in D.C., where she worked in the intelligence community and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Realizing she wanted improving businesses’ sustainability to be her full-time job, Caroline pursued an MBA at Yale School of Management (SOM), where she undertook much of her coursework at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE). While at SOM and YSE, Caroline dove further into her interest in industrial ecology, the science behind the circular economy.

Caroline was thrilled to welcome the South back with open arms when she accepted a position as Atlantic Packaging’s first Director of Sustainability. In this role, she assists companies in transitioning to more sustainable packaging and helps them weigh the sustainability and business tradeoffs required to pursue a more circular economy. She now lives in Charlotte with her fiancé, Charles. She is an avid vegetable gardener and explorer of wild places.