{"id":3162,"date":"2018-07-17T13:49:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?post_type=profile&p=3162"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T18:01:15","slug":"sarah-finnie","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/profile\/sarah-finnie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Finnie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Finnie is the Founding Director of The 51 Percent Project<\/a>, a climate communication initiative at IGS. She previously held adjunct faculty appointments at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication and at the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience & Environmental Health.<\/p>\n

Finnie is the founding partner of WeSpire, a B Corporation whose behavior-change platform is used at S&P 100 corporations to engage employees on sustainability and other purpose-driven initiatives.<\/p>\n

Her ongoing research investigates barriers and accelerators to corporate climate action, including stakeholder engagement, at Princeton University\u2019s Behavioral Science for Policy Lab.<\/p>\n

Finnie serves on the advisory board of the Planetary Health Alliance at Harvard University\u2019s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a member of the advisory council of Boston Harbor Now and its Climate Roundtable. She is on the board of ecoAmerica. She began her career at The New Yorker<\/em> and continued at The Atlantic<\/em> and at iVillage, where she was the launch content director. Publications include The Atlantic<\/em>, HuffPost, and mindbodygreen.<\/p>\n

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