Our Team
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Bill McKibbenPresident and Co-Founder Random fact: Wrote the first book about global warming—"The End of Nature." |
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Landry NinteretseAfrica Francophone Country & Media Coordinator Random fact: I work creating hope and making a difference in the African Great Lakes region. |
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Sarah RifaatArab World Coordinator, Egypt Lead Coordinator Random fact: I'm a cyclist and I've played sports like tennis and kickboxing, yet I've never broken a bone! |
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Matthew AndersonLead Designer Random fact: Carl Sagan is my hero. |
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Samantha BaileyAfrica Coordinator Random fact: I have a minor obsession with 18th century sailing ships all because of Patrick O'Brian. |
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Micah ParkinColorado/Mountain Regional Organizer Random fact: I sing in a gypsy jazz band and gave birth to two daughters at home... on purpose. |
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Juan Carlos SorianoLatin American Field Coordinator Random fact: I enjoy cold showers. |
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Phil AroneanuU.S. Campaign Director and Co-Founder Random fact: Recently rode his bike 350 miles. |
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Paula ColletBrasil Field Coordinator Random fact: I really like working with people. |
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Julie HudsonDevelopment Associate Random fact: I learned how to milk a goat and make goat cheese on my last vacation. |
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Rully PrayogaEast/Southeast Field Coordinator Random fact: I learn ninjitsu for my soul. |
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Will BatesGlobal Campaigns Co-Director and Co-Founder Random fact: I may or may not look like my photo, depending on the season. |
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Kelly BlynnGlobal Campaigns Co-Director and Co-Founder Random fact: When I eat apples or almonds my ears itch. |
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Joshua Kahn RussellOakland, California, USA Random fact: I used to teach Tae Kwon Do. |
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May BoeveExecutive Director and Co-Founder Random fact: I can spell words very quickly. |
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Jenny MarienauNorth Carolina Field Organizer Random fact: I play the ukelele because it makes every song sound happy. |
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Kevin BucklandArt Ambassador Random fact: I sell glaciers at the lowest prices. |
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Anna GoldsteinU.S. Campaign Coordinator Random fact: I've never had a cavity. |
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Juliana RussarBrasil Field Coordinator Random fact: I try my best to be a Yôga practioner and a cyclist, but sometimes I am just lazy! |
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Molly HaighU.S. Field Manager Random fact: I am the reigning 350.org kickboxing champion. |
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Jamie HennCommunications Director and Co-Founder Random fact: I motorcycled across the Himalayas. |
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Oleg IzyumenkoRussian Language Outreach Coordinator Random fact: I am fluent in Esperanto and always eager to teach this beautiful language to others! |
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Sara CampU.S. Campaign Coordinator Random fact: I have a cat named Kyoto Protocol. |
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Jason KowalskiPolicy Director Random fact: I once got a hug from Meghan McCain. |
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Christine IrvineUS Campaigns Coordinator Random fact: I've been dubbed a "locked-down climate guerilla" in the book The Climate War for an action at the Cliffside coal plant in 2008. |
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Teresa NiñoTranslation Coordinator (or Translation PM, as it's called in the translation world) Random fact: I can cook the best tortilla de patatas you've ever had! |
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Deirdre SmithNew Mexico Field Organizer Random Fact: I hula hoop to Led Zeppelin to get myself out of a bad mood. Works every time. |
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Jeremy OsbornOperations Director and Co-Founder Random Fact: I have a thing for cities starting with 'B'. Last four places of residence: Burlington, VT, USA; Budapest, Hungary; Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn, NY, USA |
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Linda CapatoSan Francisco, CA, USA Random fact: I was in an all-girl rap group in college. |
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Aaron PackardOceania Region Coordinator Random fact: I climbed a coconut tree in my recent 350 trip to the Cook Islands - pretty much rate that as one of the top achievements of my life. |
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Jean AltomareOffice Manager Random fact: I used to have an orange mohawk. |
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Heidi QuanteCreative Coordinator for 350 Earth Art Random fact: I can actually yodel. |
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Duncan MeiselBrooklyn, New York, USA Random fact: I only eat plants, but my favorite is the sweet potato. |
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Rae BreauxSan Francisco, California, USA Random fact: I opened for KISS with my high school marching band. |
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Alex BeaOnline Campaigns Coordinator Random fact: Food trucks are my favorite thing about working in downtown DC. |
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Matt LeonardOakland, California, USA Random fact: I can recite the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet from memory. |
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Diana VogtelEuropean Coordinator Random fact: I am a proud adoptive parent to one penguin named Fritz, one elephant named Lampesa and one spider (not named yet). |
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Jon WarnowWeb Director and Co-Founder Random fact: I'm terrified of revolving doors. |
If you would like to speak to any of us or be connected to others in your region, please contact us at the email addresses listed.
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Bill McKibbenPresident Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. |
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Jay HalfonTreasurer Jay R. Halfon is a practicing attorney and public policy strategist. He represents tax-exempt organizations, including public charities, private foundations, advocacy groups and political entities. He has a broad range of experience influencing public policy in both Congress and state legislatures. |
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KC GoldenSecretary KC is an active leader in the national climate movement, serving on the boards of several national climate groups. He has also been active in the utility industry, helping Seattle City Light become the first major carbon-free electric utility in the late 1990s. He was one of Seattle Magazine's "Power 25" most influential people, and it's #1 "Eco-Hero." |
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Naomi KleinNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She is a contributing editor for Harper's and reporter for Rolling Stone, and writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper's won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. |
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Jessy TolkanJessy Tolkan serves as the Executive Director for the Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of 50 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. She's been featured in Time Magazine, Hard Ball with Chris Matthews, and Vanity Fair Magazine. Jessy helped to plan the largest youth gathering on global warming in our nation's history—POWER SHIFT 2007, a conference that brought together more than 6000 youth representing all 50 states, and culminated with the largest single lobby day on capitol hill focused on global warming. Most recently, Jessy spearheaded POWER VOTE, a campaign to mobilize 1,000,000 young voters are climate and energy issues in more than 30 states across the country. |
- Mohamed Adow
- President Mohammed Nasheed
- Vandana Shiva
- Payal Parekh
- Casper ter Kuile
- Marita Manely
- Sean Weaver
- Ricken Patel
- Wael Hmaidan
- Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada
- Ronny Jumeau
- Sze Ping
- Kumi Naidoo
- Rod Oram
- Rubens Harry Born
- Liz Thompson
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Van Jones
Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy. He is a co-founder of three successful non-profit organizations: The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change and Green For All. Jones is the best-selling author of the definitive book on green jobs, The Green-Collar Economy. He served as the green jobs advisor in the Obama White House in 2009. Jones is currently the President of Rebuild the Dream.
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Gus Speth
Gus Speth is an award-winning environmental leader and author of books such as The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability and Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment. He has held such prestigious titles as Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, chair of the UN Development Group, and Dean of Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Speth was also the founder and president of the World Resources Institute, professor of law at Georgetown University, chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality and senior attorney and co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Speth currently serves on the boards of the Natural Resources Defense Council, World Resources Institute, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New Economics Institute, New Economy Network, and the Institute for Sustainable Communities.
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Betsy Taylor
Betsy Taylor is President of Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions, a consulting firm offering strategic services to philanthropic, business and non-profit clients. She was the co-founder and Board President of 1Sky, which merged with 350.org in April 2011. Taylor founded and served as president of the Center for a New American Dream, launched the Responsible Purchasing Network, and earned numerous awards including winner of the Washingtonian Magazine's top fifty places to work in the D.C. metropolitan area. She previously served as executive director of the Merck Family Fund, the Stern Family Fund and the Ottinger Foundation and was a founding member and officer of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. She is author of Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century, What Kids Really Want that Money Can't Buy, and More Fun, Less Stuff.
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Rev. Bob Edgar
Bob Edgar is President and CEO of Common Cause, one of nation's most effective grassroots advocacy organizations working for democracy reform. Edgar served seven years as general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, and is the former president of the Claremont School of Theology. He was elected to the U.S. House in 1974, the first Democrat in 82 years to represent the heavily Republican 7th Congressional District of Pennsylvania near Philadelphia.
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Vicky Rateau
Vicky Rateau is the campaign manager for Oxfam America's national and international organizing and advocacy efforts around food security and climate change. She has played a leadership role on many global poverty campaigns for the past 11 years, including Oxfam International's Make Trade Fair campaign. Rateau was the field director at the ONE campaign and an SEIU union organizer. Rateau previously served on the board of 1Sky.
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Billy Parish
Billy Parish is co-founder and President of Solar Mosaic. Prior to that, Billy co-founded and grew the Energy Action Coalition into the largest youth organization in the world focused on clean energy and climate solutions. Elected in 2007 as the youngest U.S. Ashoka Fellow, Billy has launched dozens of youth, climate and green jobs initiatives. He is also a co-founder of Green Owl Records, a green music label under Warner Music Group, and is a Board Member of several companies and non-profits.
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Rev. Richard Cizik
The Reverend Richard Cizik is Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals. His primary responsibilities include setting NAE's policy direction on issues before Congress, the White House, and Supreme Court, as well as serving as a national spokesman on issues of concern to evangelicals. He is the author of The High Cost of Indifference and the landmark NAE document, For the Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility. Since 2002, when Rev. Cizik was first "converted" to the cause of climate change, he has been an advocate for action on climate change within the US evangelical community and beyond. He was a participant in Climate Forum 2002, at Oxford, England, which produced the "Oxford Declaration" on global warming, and was instrumental in creation of the Evangelical Climate Initiative, introduced in 2006.
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Colin Beavan
author, speaker, and environmental activist Colin Beavan, commonly referred to as No Impact Man, is well known for his year-long experiment with a no-impact lifestyle and his book on the experience, No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet. Beavan founded the No Impact Project, an international environmental non-profit dedicated to empowering citizens to make choices which better their lives and lower their environmental impact through lifestyle change, community action, and participation in environmental politics. His work has been the subject of stories in the New York Time, the Christian Science Monitor, and many other national and international news outlets. His website can be found at colinbeavan.com
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Liz Butler
Liz Butler is a leading activist with more than 17 years of experience organizing and campaigning on environmental issues, with a focus on both market and legislative campaigns. Most recently, she worked as the Campaign Director of 1Sky. Prior to joining the 1Sky team, Butler was a co-founder of ForestEthics where she spent 10 years as the Organizing Director. Butler also served as the National Organizing Director for American Lands Alliance, the Director of Missouri Public Interest Research Group, and graduated from Green Corps' Environmental Leadership Training Program, where she received the third Alumni Achievement Award ever given by Green Corps. Liz is a recent recipient of the New Leaders Council "40 Under 40" Award in recognition of her advocacy work.
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Rev. Lennox Yearwood
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., is a minister, community activist, and one of the most influential people in Hip Hop political life. Firmly grounded in his Caribbean and Louisiana roots, Rev. Yearwood is a fierce advocate for human and civil rights in the 21st century. He currently serves as President and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus and works diligently and tirelessly to encourage the Hip Hop generation to utilize its political and social voice. Rev. Yearwood was a co-creator of the 2004 campaign "Vote or Die". He was also the Political and Grassroots Director for Russell Simmons' Hip Hop Summit Action Network and a Senior Consultant to Jay Z's Voice Your Choice. Rev. Yearwood has become an important figure in the peace movement as an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq. He was an Officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and led the "Make Hip Hop Not War" national bus tour to engage more young people in the movement for peace.
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