Claire Cornetta
Co-Founder, Principal
Claire is an impact producer and strategist who alchemizes deep listening and rigorous analysis into campaigns and coalitions that hold up under pressure. Whether she’s building a justice-forward strategy to strengthen community or doing research that reads like an excavation, Claire creates clarity in even the most tangled spaces.
At Carrot Impact, she co-leads strategic visioning, internal design, and long-term campaign planning for organizations and media makers who are ready to do it differently..
WHAT SHE DOES
Claire’s the kind of person who’s not afraid to feel everything — and strategize through it. She keeps every handwritten note she’s ever received, is a mother to two horses, and has impeccable taste in music (from Fleetwood Mac to deep house to campy film scores). She also co-hosts Often Wrong, a podcast about acknowledging nuance, rethinking what we think we know, and having the audacity to grow out loud.
SECRET SAUCE
Everyone wants systems change until it means changing their systems. Claire Cornetta doesn’t flinch at complexity — she translates it, reorganizes it, and makes it work in service of liberation.
HARD TRUTH
Claire’s work has fueled globally recognized campaigns across climate justice, health equity, environmental protection, food systems, and public health — spaces she refuses to silo, because as she says: everything is connected.
At Participant, she led impact campaigns for DARK WATERS and THE FIRST WAVE, driving momentum toward structural wins like the first-ever PFAS regulations in Colorado.
RECEIPTS
Her work has received recognition by the UN SDG Action Awards, Cannes Lions, Fast Company, and the Anthem Awards.
At Carrot, Claire specializes in stewarding the stories that find her and making sure they compel the right people. Her sweet spot is making room for creativity inside constraints, crafting campaigns that transcend partisan politics, and helping clients get radically honest.
WHAT SHE BELIEVES
Humans are nature, and nature is intelligence.
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Health is collective — public, personal, environmental, and spiritual.
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Her work — wherever it lands — is about leaving things better than she found them: movements, teams, individuals, and systems alike.
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Connection, consciousness, and community are everything, and transformation happens when we stop pretending we’re separate.