Kristina Jansen

Kristina “Kristy” Jansen is Chief Content Officer at the Optimist Daily, a free positive news-service delivering solutions news to your inbox every day. She also produces a weekly radio show, Solutions News and serves as Chief of Staff at the Optimist Daily’s publishing partner, the World Business Academy. She holds a master’s degree in Psychological Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego and an undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Kristy is passionate about building a better future and communicating the tremendous possibilities available in the world. Her research interests include conscious mass media, socially responsible entrepreneurialism, intentional communities, nonviolent civil resistance, regenerative economies, smart science fiction and, of course, the positive power of rational optimism.