Kristina Jansen

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.

Blogs by Kristina Jansen

Living while dying – Notes from the resistance

“It’s precisely because we’re finite that life is so sweet.” – Sheldon Solomon Last month I got the opportunity to meet Ady Barkan, a progressive activist who’s become one of the most powerful voices in the fight to move the United States to a universal healthcare system, sometimes dubbed “Medicare for All”.  The meeting took place at… Read more »

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A Divorce Story

“Going through my things after we decided to get divorced was like going through someone’s Estate.  It reminded me of how it felt when my grandmother passed away, only here I felt like I was the one who had died.” Rick told me this as we caught up over coffee a few weeks ago where,… Read more »

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