Central Coalition Staff
Digital OrganizerCell-phone:415.828.1354Land-line:202.536.2845Arthur is the Digital Organizer for Energy Action Coalition and the Campus Climate Challenge. Arthur got his start in organizing at the University of California Santa Cruz where he worked with the California Student Sustainability Coalition and Greenpeace to push forward an ambitious statewide renewable energy policy.
Operations ManagerCell-phone:415-290-0129Land-line:415-575-5531Kassie is Director of Operations and one of the co-founders of the Energy Action Coalition. Kassie graduated from Connecticut College in 2003 where she led a student campaign to purchase renewable energy. Today they purchase 100% of the campus' electricity from Green-e certified wind power. Prior to joining EAC Central Staff, Kassie spent three years at the Center for Resource Solutions working on the Green-e Renewable Energy Certification Program.
Campaign DirectorCell-phone:414-520-5655Land-line:202-536-2845Jessy is a rock star of youth voting and empowerment. At UW-Madison she worked to organize student vote coalitions in 2000 and 2002, helping to elect Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin to office, and engaging students in local politics through her own bid for the Madison City Council at age 19. After graduation, Jessy worked as the Wisconsin State Director for the New Voters Project, helping to produce one of the highest youth voter turnout rates in the country.
CoordinatorCell-phone:203-887-7225Land-line:202-250-3404I'm a co-founder and coordinator of the Energy Action Coalition and have been a full-time organizer working to build the youth climate movement for four years. I'm from NYC, went to Yale for 5 semesters and left to do this work. I believe young people will lead the way.
New Media FellowCell-phone:Land-line:202.536.2845Richard is the New Media Fellow for the Energy Action Coalition. Richard graduated from Macalester College after winning campaigns on green building, clean energy, green roofing, and sustainable investment.
Digital Organizing FellowCell-phone:774.253.0862Land-line:Sherrie is the Digital Organizing Fellow for the summer. She is currently the webmaster for her group at Northeastern University. Sherrie and her group (HEAT) have organized some amazing events and are pushing Northeastern to be a leader in the fight to stop global warming. She is also a gifted designer who has made her group's website and materials some of the hottest in the youth climate movement.
Coalition Partner Staff
Campus Campaign CoordinatorCell-phone:202-390-8906Land-line:301-891-6768Matt Stern was pulled out of the dark recesses of a scientific laboratory and into the world of climate organizing. While a student at the University of Pittsburgh he spent long hours studying climate science. Through these studies he quickly realized the need for climate action. After a short trip across the country via bicycle, he moved to Washington, DC bright eyed and idealistic. While his eyes remain bright and his mind idealistic, he now has a job - as Campus Campaign Coordinator for CCAN.
Director, Freedom from Oil CoalitionCell-phone:415 828 4473Land-line:415 558 9490Mike Hudema moved to the US a year ago and currently works for Global Exchange on the Freedom from Oil campaign.
Check out his book - An Action a Day Keeps Global Capitalism Away
Board ChairCell-phone:908-868-7511Land-line:732-932-7131Sarah Clader is a Rutgers University student working with NJPIRG Student Chapters, a statewide student-directed and student-funded organization. She and her peers are working with Rutgers to adopt a plan to cut its global warming pollution 90% by 2050, engaging their campus in a university-wide energy-saving Dorm Competition, and targeting New Jersey Congressman to take bold action in DC.
Midwest Regional OrganizerCell-phone:(608) 217-8869Land-line:(608) 257-4994Joe has been the Midwestern Regional Organizer for the Sierra Student Coalition since January 2007. He works with students in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois to help them run the most effective campaigns possible and to win victories on their campus. He lives in sunny Madison, Wisconsin.
National Campaign Coordinator for the Campus Climate ChallengeCell-phone:Land-line:202-548-4534Eliza Simon is the National Campaign Coordinator for the Sierra Student Coalition, the student-run chapter of the Sierra Club. She works with staff and hundreds of students across the US to help them win Challenge campaigns on campus. Eliza graduated from Wesleyan University in 2004 and has experience organizing around the environment, youth voting, and diversity issues.
Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator, The Student PIRGsCell-phone:Land-line:312.291.0349 x302Mary Nicol is the CCC Coordinator with the Student PIRGs. She works with students across the US to win clean energy campaigns on campus and influence the global warming debate at the local, state, and federal level. She currently resides in Chicago and is proud to call herself a Midwesterner.
Tennessee Campus OrganizerCell-phone:615.498.5922Land-line:865.637.6055 x17Brandon is a Tennessee Campus Organizer with the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. His involvement in climate and energy activism began as a student at Middle Tennessee State University, where he studied German and Music. He now lives in Nashville to support colleges and student organizations working towards sustainable energy policies throughout Tennessee.
- Cascadia Freedom from Oil OrganizerCell-phone:503-493-7495Land-line:I'm Global Exchange's Independence from Oil campaign coordinator for Cascadia (aka the Pacific Northwest). I work on Global Exchange's oil education efforts, while pressuring campuses to curb their oil addictions and reduce their contributions to climate change by transforming their transportation infrastructure through conservation and greener vehicles.I've been heavily active in environmental and social justice causes for the past decade. I spent 6 months doing relief work in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, where I got a view of the damage climate change can do, and how poor people and people of color are affected by so-called “natural” disasters. There oil spills in residential neighborhoods were set off by hurricane storm surges made unnaturally large by oil industry canals through once pristine wetlands. The storm itself was fueled by global warming and hit a community with the highest rates of cancer in the country caused, you guessed it, by petrochemical industry pollution. Help was slow in coming in part because money and people were being used elsewhere, fighting a war for oil in Iraq. I believe that only by merging environmental and social justice movements into a common resistance movement can society be turned away from its catastrophic course. I give trainings in action planning, meeting facilitation, media outreach, and campaign organizing.
Atlantic Coordinator, Sustainable Campuses / Coordinatrice atlantique, Campus durablesCell-phone:n/aLand-line:(902) 444-3113A student of Environmental Science/International Development at Dalhousie University, Zoë is a founding member of the CYCC and is co-authoring the upcoming "Global Warming for Dummies".
Étant étudiante en Sciences de l'environnement/développement internationale à l'Université de Dalhousie, Zoë est une membre fondateure de la CJCC et elle écriver "Les Changements Climatiques pour les nuls".
Campus and Community OrganizerCell-phone:315.450.6628Land-line:215.743.4884Matt/Mattie got introduced to radical activism with the Student Environmental Action Coalition at Syracuse University. Through SEAC he participated in a local environmental justice struggle and a demilitarism/anti-empire campaign, organized the Tampaction campaign ("radical menstrual activism"), and helped start a successful campaign to get the university to buy 20% clean renewable energy (and, of course, eventually 100%). Matt has a degree in women's studies and sociology and is currently a campus and community organizer with the Energy Justice Network and SEAC's National Council Coordinator, based in Philadelphia.
- Conservation OrganizerCell-phone:202-548-4593Land-line:202-276-0330
Yochi joined the SSC in December 2005 as the first Program Assistant. He now has the privilege of working with Energy Action's talented organizers and the environmental movement's finest students.
Trainings DirectorCell-phone:Land-line:202-548-4592Jon Barrows is the Trainings Director for the Sierra Student Coalition, the national student chapter of the Sierra Club. He works with student leaders from across the country to plan and run week-long environmental leadership training programs throughout the summer, as well as other trainings throughout the year. He is and alum of the University of New Hampshire (undergrad) and Antioch New England (grad).
- Student OrganizerCell-phone:716-785-0864Land-line:
I am a native New Yorker currently working in Philly. I started activism at the ripe old age of 13 while working at an environmental education center in the Hudson Valley. On campus I worked to improve the quality of life for women and men across the globe through V-Day, and many other merry feminist events, as well as through the Campus Climate Challenge. I like trees, sunshine, and used books, and think you should too. Also, I think writing bios in the 3rd person is awkward.
Youth Organizer, Education CoordinatorCell-phone:415-572-2592Land-line:415-659-0554Levana provides opportunities for students and teachers to take action for the climate and forests. Previously she worked with YES!, the Paulo Freire Institute and as the U.S. Advisor to the UNEP Youth Advisory Council. She recently finished a Masters in Education at SFSU.
PA, OH, MI, WV Regional OrganizerCell-phone:267.307.4707Land-line:215.508.3310Kim started organizing for clean energy at Temple University (grad '06). As a student, she led the SSC’s Nat’l Energy Team and helped organize the youth presence in Montreal at the U.N. Climate Negotiations in 2005. Now, she loves helping other young people organize to stop climate chaos both on and off campus.
National Coordinator for Sustainable CampusesCell-phone:Land-line:613 241-1615Anjali is the National Coordinator for Sustainable Campuses with the Sierra Youth Coalition, where she has been working since graduating from Queen's University in summer of 2006. While at Queen's, she was involved with a variety of different environment and social justice-related initiatives including Sustainable Campuses, and spent a year as Social Issues Commissioner in the undergraduate student government. She currently works out of the SYC National Office in Ottawa, Ontario.
