About me

Karen Land Short is the Global Executive Creative Director, Sustainability, for Accenture Song's Sustainability Studio. The studio's goal, and Karen's goal, is to make sustainability relevant and actionable for everyone.
Karen is an award-winning creative leader with nearly two decades of experience building brands of influence through purpose-driven creativity and innovation. She's been recognized twice in the Adweek Creative 100, as well as Business Insider's Most Creative Women in Advertising. Karen's work has been acknowledged by top award shows including the ANDYs, One Show, D&AD, Art Director's Club, the Clios, the Effies, Webby's and Cannes Lions, where she's notably earned a Titanium Lion for the Prudential Challenge Lab and the first-ever Glass Lion for the Equal Payback Project. Her campaign for Under Armour was honored by the United Nations, named Adweek's Ad of the Year and was included in Business Insider's Best 15 Ads of the Decade. Her election film "Oval" for the Biden campaign was ranked in AdAge's Best Ads of 2020. She's been lucky to have spent the last ten years working with the extremely talented group of people at Droga5, who recently were crowned both Adweek and Ad Age's Agency of the Decade.
Karen believes in creativity as a force for good. She's helped lead Potential Energy, a coalition of marketers committed to motivating action on climate change, and consulted with Youth v Gov, a group of kids suing the . government over climate change. She's also spearheaded multiple projects promoting gender equality, including around issues of equal pay, reproductive rights and mentorship. At Droga5, she created breakthrough campaigns for impactful brands like the Clinton Foundation, Hillary for America, the YMCA, the National Women's Law Center, the Asian American Federation, the Biden campaign, and more.

Karen's work

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