Kyra Epstein

Staff

Kyra brings more than 25 years of expertise in helping organizations to tell their stories. Working with the Mesa Refuge website, newsletter and online communications, she helps convey a strong, clear message—reaching and growing a large local and international audience. She is also a gifted teacher of plant medicine and graces Mesa Refuge events with her custom teas made with plants growing on the property.

Kyra has served as a writer and teacher in the fields of environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and green building. In addition to providing communications consulting for organizations like the Mesa Refuge, she serves as the communications manager for Commonweal—a non-profit in Bolinas, California, that focuses on health and healing for people and the planet. She also manages one of Commonweal’s programs, The New School at Commonweal, that brings conversation, art and lectures to thousands of people around the world through their events, podcasts and videos. Other past clients in the energy fields include the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Strategic Energy Innovations. As an environmental journalist, she has published more than 200 articles for newspapers, journals and magazines including the Sierra Club’s national activist newspaper, The Planet, E/Environment Magazine and ASHRAE’s High Performing Buildings magazine.

Kyra holds master’s degrees in both environmental policy and communications from the University of Denver and is certified in permaculture design from Commonweal’s Regenerative Design Institute.

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