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As Senior Manager of Yahoo! for Good, the company's Social Responsibility department, Ms. Carlson is responsible for leading Yahoo!'s environmental strategy and corporate social responsibility programs. Her primary focus is inspiring Yahoo!'s audience of over 500 million people to be more "green" in their daily lives through use of Yahoo! products. She helped guide the development of a new Yahoo! Green site to encourage people to take eco-friendly actions and has driven the creation of Yahoo! Earth Day sites since 2005. She also spearheaded Yahoo!'s worldwide initiative to become carbon neutral and rallied grassroots efforts by launching a Green Team of hundreds of employees across the globe. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Ms. Carlson worked at Nike Inc. in Apparel Sustainability and at Business for Social Responsibility as Environment Program Manager. She began her career at the environmental engineering consulting firm Tetra Tech EM Inc. She holds a BA in Human Biology/Environmental Management from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.
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