Kara West is the Resource Librarian and a Senior Associate at Gensler San Diego. She co-leads the firmwide Sustainable Material Resource Group and serves on the Design Resilience team. A champion of the Gensler Product Sustainability (GPS) Standards she is the training lead on the Core Team and is the vetting lead for the flooring categories. Kara earned her Master’s in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University and B.A. in Art History from UC Santa Cruz. Prior to joining Gensler, she had 15 years of museum/library collection experience for both non-profits and the City of San Diego.