Karen Scanlon, executive vice president, environmental stewardship, leads industry-wide sustainability impact programs as well as environmental modeling, measurement and reporting efforts for Dairy Management Inc. and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. Karen is responsible for the Innovation Center’s Environmental Stewardship Committee and the U.S. Dairy Net Zero Initiative (NZI), a multi-organizational effort to accelerate progress at the field, farm and manufacturing level toward the industry’s collective environmental stewardship goals.
Karen brings extensive leadership experience in agriculture conservation initiatives, partnership cultivation, and strategy development and execution after serving as executive director of the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) for 11 years. In this role, she worked with strategic partners in the public and private sectors to build innovative and effective programs to achieve sustainability goals and success in a variety of conservation efforts across the United States. Karen holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from University of Florida and a Master of Science in Natural Resources Management from The Ohio State University.