Senior Policy Advisor, WA State Department of Natural Resources
Bio
Csenka Favorini-Csorba is a Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Community Resilience at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, where she’s leading an agency-wide effort to conserve one million acres and replant one million acres of Washington’s forests.
Prior to working in state government, she worked for six years at Earthworm Foundation, an international non-profit organization, where she provided strategic guidance to Chief Sustainability Officers and other company leaders as they developed and implemented responsible sourcing policies. Her work has followed pulp and paper, wood pellet, and palm oil supply chains upstream to forests in the US and Canada, parts of South America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, where she leveraged brand name buying power to improve forest and social management practices on the ground.
She has a Joint Master Degree of Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management from the Central European University and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Ethics from the University of Toronto.