KEPO Bids Adieu To Jacobs
Written by Jeremy Zafran on 9 September 2022
After 23 years, Lynn Jacobs is wrapping-up her final day as Director of Kahnàwake Environment Protection Services (KEPO) today:
“I’m really proud and it was really a team effort, what we’ve achieved, what we’ve accomplished up to this state was just a testament to all the great people that are working at KEPO and what we’ve been able to work towards together with the same goal and initiative to protect Our Mother, The Earth.”
Jacobs says that KEPO has grown by leaps and bounds especially in the last 5 years:
“We were a tiny team of 3, 4 people for many, many years under the Lands Unit and we’ve been fortunate to build-up the unit since 2018 and now we’re 14 staff currently doing many different projects and initiatives and really working hard to protect the environment in the community.”
Jacobs is moving on to become the Director of Programs for the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada. Focusing on programs related to climate change, bio-diversity, environmental inequities and Indigenous issues.
