About
KARINE DEBATY
County Council 22
“ Now is the time for us, all together, to work diligently at building a sustainable and prospering tomorrow for everyone, leveraging the unique assets of land, diversity, and economic growth that we share”
Values
“A moment that fundamentally shaped me into who I am today was when my mother once referred to a day when soldiers with a harsh accent knocked at their door. My pregnant grandma opened, holding my mother’s little hand, and said: “You can search the house, they are not here: they are at the front taking care of the wounded, including your own soldiers”. That day, I understood that we were given an elevated power, for caring for all beings, regardless of the threat, without discrimination, and that this power won wars, and can defeat dictatorships, lies, and divisiveness.”
About Karine
Karine was raised on the French border of the Mediterranean Sea in an agricultural area of fruit and vegetable crops. Karine pursued an education in engineering with a focus on the food industry, from farming to processed food.
She worked as a researcher in biotechnology on a European program, then earned a Master’s in Business Administration. After a few years in the field of financial audit, she became a project manager for the remainder of her career, working with Liberty Life and Michelin. Through leading transformation projects at Michelin, she developed the culture of preparing for the future, with creative, collaborative, responsible, solutions, for the benefit of all.
Karine raised her three children in Greenville. Her sons live and work in SC, and her daughter lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Karine retired to build an energy-efficient home using concrete walls built in NC and powered by solar energy. Her current project is her garden and to grow a native green sanctuary on her one-acre lot.
