board OF DIRECTORS

An independent, volunteer board of directors, supported by professional staff, governs the Sierra Club Foundation. The board primarily focuses on enhancing the overall performance of the Foundation and supporting the charitable and educational work of the Sierra Club and other grantees. We are grateful to collaborate with such an experienced team of leaders whose innovation, philanthropy, and advocacy guide and advance our strategic objectives.

ALLISON CHIN – CHAIR (UNTIL MARCH 2020) Environmental activist and cancer biologist (Leesburg, VA)


GAIL GREENWALD – CHAIR  
Investor, advisor, and director at Launchpad Venture Group and partner in the Clean Energy Venture Group (Cambridge, MA)


JOEL SANDERS – VICE CHAIR
Retired partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Oakland, CA)


ROBIN MANN – TREASURER
Grassroots environmental activist; former Sierra Club Board President (Rosemont, PA)


BILL WEIHL – SECRETARY
Founder and Executive Director of ClimateVoice, former Director of Sustainability at Facebook, Green Energy Czar at Google, CTO at Akamai Technologies, and Professor of Computer Science at MIT (San Francisco, CA)


LOREN BLACKFORD – OFFICER-AT-LARGE
Clean energy investor, political donor, and advocate; member, Ceres President’s Council, Rachel’s Network, NRDC’s E2, Voices for Progress, Patriotic Millionaires, and Confluence Philanthropy; former Sierra Club Board President (New York City, NY)


DARREN ARONOFSKY
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and environmental activist (Brooklyn, NY)


DONNEL BAIRD
Founder of BlocPower; former community organizer, voter contact director for Obama for America; worked on Change to Win/LIUNA campaign (New York City, NY)


REBEKAH SAUL BUTLER
Co-Executive Director of The Grove Foundation; Managing Director of Grove Action Fund (San Mateo, CA)


MYKE BYBEE
Legislative Director, The Trust for Public Land; previously, Project Director at the Resources Legacy Fund and Program Officer at the Wyss Foundation (Washington, DC)

 

RAMÓN CRUZ
Environmental policy and advocacy expert; former Deputy Director of Puerto Rico's environmental regulatory agency; Sierra Club President (Brooklyn, NY)


FLAVIA DE LA FUENTE
Senior Associate at BuildGroup LLC, a technology-focused venture capital group (Austin, TX)


CLAIRE BROIDO JOHNSON
Senior Operations Executive running University System of Maryland Momentum Fund; Founder of SunEdison (Baltimore, MD)


PAUL RISSMAN
Co-Founder of Rights CoLab; former archeologist and Executive Vice President of AllianceBernstein (Summit, NJ)


JESSICA SAROWITZ
Managing Partner, Sarowitz Family LLC; Managing Family Director, the Julian Grace Foundation (Chicago, IL)


EVA KATHLEEN SCHULTE
Director, Institutional Advancement, at Whatcom Community College; former impact investing specialist at Travois, a Certified B Corp (Bellingham, WA)


JILL SOFFER
Philanthropist; board member of NRDC Action Fund and Wilderness Workshop (Carbondale, CO)


STEPH SPEIRS
Co-Founder and CEO at Solstice; formerly managed Obama campaign field operations and developed policy at the White House National Security Council (Somerville, MA)


STEPHANIE STUCKEY
Director of Sustainability Services at Southface; former Director of Sustainability and Chief Resilience Officer, City of Atlanta; former Georgia State Representative (Atlanta, GA)

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