Transdisciplinary Problem Solving: Ben Packard, University of Washington

Ben Packard serves as the Executive Director of EarthLab at the University of Washington, an initiative to tackle environmental challenges including climate change, ocean health, natural hazards and healthy ecosystems. Ben is responsible for promoting new learning and action to building relationships between the University and public, private and nonprofit sectors.

Before coming to EarthLab, Ben served as the Global Managing Director of Corporate Engagement at The Nature Conservancy and the Vice President of Global Responsibility at Starbucks.

Ben and Kevin discuss using multiple disciplines to solve real-world problems, engaging and supporting faculty that work on sustainability, and integrating social justice into environmental work.