http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/phelps-chair Doug Phelps has been an organizer and a trainer of organizers for 35 years. He conceived the idea of Green Corps and designed its training curriculum. He led a team of other senior PIRG staff, including Ken Ward, Susan Birmingham, Margie Alt, Wendy Wendlandt, and Susan Rakov, to recruit Green Corps’ founding leadership—Gina Cummings and Leslie Samuelrich—and launch the project in 1992. Doug is Chair & CEO of U.S. PIRG, which includes State PIRGs in 30 states, a number of state environmental groups, Environmental Action, and the National Environmental Law Center. He founded and chairs The Fund, a consulting group that conducts door-to-door fundraising, public education, and grassroots lobbying on behalf of partners such as Sierra Club, Human Rights Campaign, and U.S. PIRG. He is the Chair of Green Corps’ Board of Directors. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/phelps-chair Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:08:32 -0600 http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/bingaman-vice-chair Bob began his organizing career with the student movement of the late 1970s. He served in multiple positions with the United States Student Association and affiliates, including national field staff and Board member. From 1986 to 1993, Bob was the Legislative Representative and National Field Director for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League. Today he is the National Field Director for Sierra Club, the largest grassroots political environmental organization in the United States. Bob served for nearly a decade as Co-Chair of the Utah Wilderness Coalition and currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Environmental Support Center, an organization that provides training and technical assistance to environmental justice organizations. He has been Vice-Chair of the Green Corps Board of Directors since 1995. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/bingaman-vice-chair Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:09:33 -0600 http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/ewing Matt directs Operation Democracy, MoveOn's national network of volunteers who go beyond email and organize powerful events in their communities. Through a combination of online and traditional organizing techniques, Operation Democracy is able to turn on a dime and quickly pull together hundreds of sophisticated events, like vigils, rallies and press conferences, across the country. During the 2006 election he helped manage Call for Change, MoveOn's Get-Out-The-Vote program. Over 100,000 Call for Change volunteers made 7 million phone calls to targeted voters in swing Congressional districts. Before working for MoveOn, Matt ran field campaigns in half a dozen states for various environmental organizations, like the Apollo Alliance and Greenpeace. He graduated from Green Corps in 2003 and Grinnell College in 2002. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/ewing Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:55:27 -0500 http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/hodgdon Sarah Hodgdon is the Deputy Field Director for Sierra Club. Prior to joining Sierra Club, Sarah served as the Executive Director of Dogwood Alliance, a regional network based in Asheville, North Carolina of 70 grassroots organizations that is dedicated to protecting Southern forests and communities by engendering broad-based, diverse support for ending unsustainable industrial forest practices. Prior to joining Dogwood Alliance, Sarah served as the Recruitment Director for Green Corps from 1996-2000. Sarah is a graduate of Indiana University and launched her grassroots organizing career with Green Corps in 1993. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/hodgdon Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:00:00 -0500 http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/macdonald Andy MacDonald is the Assistant National Campus Organizing Director for the Student PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups) and has been involved in student organizing for the past twenty years. Andy has worked on numerous legislative and corporate campaigns on local, state, national, and international levels. Among other initiatives, Andy helped launch ecopledge.com, an organization that organizes shareholders and the general public to create positive change in the environmental practices of corporations. Andy also organized the nation’s largest student environmental conference—ECOnference—in Philadelphia in 1999 and Washington, DC in 2001. Andy is a graduate of Cornell University. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/macdonald Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:00:39 -0500 http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/matsumoto Sarah Matsumoto is the National Field Director for the Endangered Species Coalition, based in Berkeley, California. The Endangered Species Coalition speaks on endangered species issues for some 360 environmental, conservation, religious, scientific, humane, sporting and business groups around the country. As field director, Sarah coordinates public education and citizen outreach efforts across the country, mobilizing support to protect the Endangered Species Act. Prior to taking on the role of field director, Sarah served as the Western Field Organizer for the Endangered Species Coalition from 2000-2004. From 1999-2000, she was the western states organizer for GREEN, a project of Defenders of Wildlife. Sarah is a graduate of Pomona College and began her organizing career with Green Corps in 1998. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/matsumoto Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:23:08 -0600 http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/ruben Adam Ruben is the Field Director of MoveOn.org Political Action, the political wing of MoveOn.org, engaging the organization’s members in efforts to win back the House in 2006 and make progress on critical progressive issues. During the 2004 election, he launched Leave No Voter Behind, a neighbor-to-neighbor get out the vote effort working in 10,000 swing precincts. The national effort mobilized seventy thousand volunteers and contacted more than 2 million voters. Prior to joining MoveOn.org, Adam was the national Field Director of U.S. PIRG, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, where he ran national environmental and consumer campaigns on issues including Arctic protection, clean energy, wild forests, and clean air. From 1995 to 1999, he served as the Organizing Director for Green Corps and was responsible for coordinating the campaign activities, trainings and supervision for the organizers. Adam graduated from Harvard University and launched his organizing career with Green Corps in 1993. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/ruben Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:13:30 -0600 http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/samuelrich Leslie was a founding staff member of Green Corps and served as Executive Director from 1995-2004. Before helping to start Green Corps, Leslie was Executive Director of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness (NSCAHH). Under her direction, from 1986 to 1991, NSCAHH grew to be the largest student network in the United States combating hunger and homelessness. Currently, she is the Deputy Director of Corporate Accountability International, a membership organization that wages campaigns challenging irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world. Leslie is a graduate of Boston College and has been a member of the Green Corps Board of Directors since 1996. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/samuelrich Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:02:59 -0500 http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/smith Heather Smith is the Executive Director of Rock the Vote, where she works to build political power for our nation’s youth and leverage that political power to influence progressive change in our country. Prior to Rock the Vote, Heather served as the Director of Young Voter Strategies, a project of The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, working to make the targeting of young voters a more permanent part of electoral strategies. Prior to launching Young Voter Strategies, Heather served as the national field director for the PIRGs New Voters Project, the largest nonpartisan grassroots effort ever undertaken to register and mobilize young voters. From 2000-2003, Heather served as an organizing director for Green Corps, coordinating campaigns with the Heritage Forests Campaign, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and many other leading environmental organizations. Heather received a B.A. with honors in economics and public policy from Duke University and began her organizing career with Green Corps in 1999. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/smith Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:03:35 -0500 http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/wendlandt Wendy has served as Political Director for U.S. PIRG, the federation of state PIRGs (Public Interest Research Groups) since 1992. As Political Director, she manages external relations for the organization and facilitates the development of new programs. During the 2004 election cycle, Wendy was actively involved in developing and launching U.S. PIRG’s New Voters and Community Voters Projects. Combined, the two projects registered more than 600,000 young and urban, minority voters to vote and made more than 500,000 personalized voter contacts. She also helped found the non-partisan Campaign Institute to train the next generation of campaign activists. Wendy joined U.S. PIRG in 1984 and has worked in a variety of positions, including serving as Executive Director of WashPIRG, the Washington Public Interest Research Group, in Seattle. She has directed campaigns, including ballot measures, on numerous issues, including stopping the proliferation of genetically engineered food, nuclear and toxic waste pollution, and campaign finance reform. Ms. Wendlandt currently serves on the board of Green Century Funds, the nation's only family of socially responsible mutual funds founded and owned by non-profit environmental organizations. She is also President of the Center for Public Interest Research and Chair of the Environment California Research & Policy Center. She has been a member of the Green Corps Board of Directors since 1992. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/wendlandt Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:04:38 -0500 http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/wilson Matt Wilson has worked in politics since 1983. Most recently, he served as the National Field Director for Grassroots Campaigns Inc., a political consulting firm specializing in field operations and donor fundraising for progressive issues, candidates, and parties. During the 2004 presidential election, he coordinated get out the vote operations for MoveOn.org Political Action in New Hampshire and Maine. Matt served as the Director of Toxics Action Center from 1989 to 2005. At the Center, Matt worked with more than 200 neighborhood groups, helping them develop and implement campaigns to pressure polluters to address toxic pollution in their communities. While at Toxics Action Center, Matt helped develop the Community Organizing Program for Green Corps, which has trained over a dozen Green Corps trainees. Matt graduated from Dartmouth College and lives in Reading, Mass., with his wife and three children. http://www.greencorps.org/about-us/board-of-directors/board-of-directors/wilson Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:05:24 -0500