Karin Chamberlain

Karin oversees the research and implementation of Clean Yield’s alternative and community investments, focusing on food and agriculture in Vermont and Greater New England.

Karin started her career in sustainable investing in 1997 as a social research intern at Trillium Asset Management while pursuing her master’s at Tufts University. After graduation, she spent 10 years with KLD Research & Analytics, where, during her tenure as Index Manager, the number of sustainability indices grew from two to more than 30, and the assets under management licensed to those indices increased tenfold to more than $11 billion.

Karin serves on the board of BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont and serves on the executive committee of Slow Money Vermont. She enjoys being a guest lecturer on sustainable business and investing at local business schools and a judge for impact investing and social entrepreneurship contests.

From 1994 to 1997, Karin served as a livestock production volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps in Ecuador. She holds a B.A. in international relations from Kenyon College and an M.A.L.D. in economics and environmental policy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Karin is trilingual in English, Spanish, and German.

Karin is a recovering endurance athlete who now enjoys hiking and biking in the summer, telemark skiing and Nordic speed skating in the winter and CrossFit year-round. Having grown up on an organic sheep farm in Etna, New Hampshire, Karin is thrilled to be back in the Upper Valley.