Trisha  Bauman, M.S

Governing Board Member

Trisha Bauman is a sustainability strategist specializing in the market opportunities for advancing positive social impact and regenerative development. She is the Principal and Founder of TJBauman LLC, a New York City firm designing strategic communications, investor pitches, stakeholder engagement plans, and cross-sector partnerships for scaling sustainability initiatives. Clients range from Fortune 500 companies, to NGOs, to early-stage ventures developing market solutions for social innovation, decarbonization, and the circular economy.

Through data-driven storytelling, she creates winning leadership communications for clients presenting at venues such as the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship, Golden Seeds Venture Fund, the Fidelity Investments Quant Summit, the Harvard Business School Summit on Gender and Work, Springboard Enterprises, TED Conferences, and numerous TEDx Conferences.

She teaches on the faculty at Columbia University's M.S. in Strategic Communication and at Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s M.A. in Sustainable Design, and is a frequent guest speaker at organizations, universities, and international conferences. She serves as a Director at the United Nations Association of New York City.

A certified mindfulness meditation teacher through the MMTCP program at the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley, Trisha has taught mindfulness in diverse communities around the world. She has degrees from Bowdoin College (BA, magna cum laude, in Economics and in History) and from Columbia University (MS, Strategic Communication with a concentration in Sustainable Development).