About Karin Hillhouse

This is how Karin is a Changemaker:
Before starting at Ashoka in 1997, Karin was based in Denver, Colorado, and spent several years as a freelance writer, publishing articles, essays, and reflections on literature, art, and architecture, solar energy and historic preservation. She won a writing fellowship from the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute to work on a novel. Additionally, she co-taught "Architectural Theory and Practice" at the University of Colorado at Denver and apprenticed as a landscape architect. As a consultant to Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, she was part of the team instrumental in Colorado's winning a national competition to launch the country's principal research center for the development of solar energy and other renewable energy sources. As a senior policy analyst, she was part of the core start-up staff at the Solar Energy Research Institute (now the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). Working for the Environmental Law Institute, Karin was principal investigator and co-author of a National Science Foundation-funded study of the legal and institutional barriers to solar energy development. She was editor of the Open Space Report, a monthly publication of the Rocky Mountain Center on the Environment. Karin earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Smith College, a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and a master's degree in urban planning and community development from the University of Colorado Denver.

The place for which Karin feels a fondness or connection:
Newfoundland; New York; Colorado; India