Jennifer Lawson

Jennifer Lawson

President and CEO
Keep America Beautiful

Jenny Lawson is the President and CEO of Keep America Beautiful, and its network of more than 700 affiliated organizations across the United States. For 70 years, KAB has supported communities in their efforts to get clean, green and beautiful with boots-on-the-ground work, proven change models and industry standard research. Jenny previously served as the Chief Civic Innovation and Corporate Citizenship Officer at Points of Light. There she led the Corporate Service Council center of excellence dedicated to building the capacity of the corporate sector for high-impact civic engagement through volunteering and philanthropy in the U.S. and around the world including The Civic 50 ranking of the country’s most civic minded companies, which now serves as an industry benchmark used by companies as a roadmap for civic culture building. Prior roles included corporate education campaign leadership at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change (now C2ES) and service as Director of the Office of the President at The Nature Conservancy. Lawson is a graduate of the University of Virginia where she studied Philosophy and Mathematics. She is a daily walker with her two dogs and husband in the beautiful communities surrounding their Connecticut home.