Drawdown Labs

Jamie Beck Alexander is a climate activist, mom, and founding director of Drawdown Labs, Project Drawdown’s private sector testing ground for accelerating the scaling of climate solutions quickly, safely, and equitably. Jamie developed and launched Drawdown Labs in early 2020 and has led the program to push the boundaries of private sector climate action. Her popular TEDx talk helped usher in a new wave of employee climate activism inside the world’s most influential companies. Jamie has been a guest on popular news outlets to talk about climate solutions, including CNN International, The Weather Channel, Al Jazeera, and NPR. She has also authored numerous articles on climate change for CNN, Fast Company, and others. As Senior Associate with Drawdown Labs, Aiyana Bodi works with corporate partners and their employees to scale climate solutions in more meaningful and impactful ways. Aiyana is passionate about intersectional environmentalism and aims to use employee activation as a vehicle for just and equitable solutions. She uses her background in communications and research and interest in design to help people find their place in the broader ecosystem of change—turning their climate concern into action. Aiyana holds a Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Science in Ecology from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, her home state. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.