Jess Sand is the Founder and Project Director of Sustainable Design Labs, an online learning lab for communication designers who want to take control of their social and environmental impacts.

Jess Sand is the Founder and Project Director of Sustainable Design Labs, an online learning lab for communication designers who want to take control of their social and environmental impacts.

She also serves as Communications Manager for Net Impact, a global nonprofit that helps people use their careers to tackle the world's toughest challenges. Jess has an extensive background in sustainable communications; she ran a solo communications practice for six years and helped build Re-nourish, the first independent online toolkit for sustainable graphic design. Her design and writing has been published in respected online and print outlets such as HOW Design magazine, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and numerous design books.

Jess lives and works in San Francisco.