As an Assistant Organizing Director, Sam provides training and support to Green Corps organizers and coordinates multiple field campaigns with partner organizations. Sam has experience leading grassroots campaigns with Oceana, Minnesota Environmental Partnership, Toxics Action Center, and Environment Maine. Working in Minnesota during his Green Corps year, Sam worked to educate local citizens about global warming and build the grassroots support needed to pass a groundbreaking Renewable Energy Standard in February 2007. Prior to joining Green Corps, Sam was a leader of the Yale Sustainable Food Project and led successful student campaigns for the expansion of sustainable food programs on campus. He was the recipient of U.S. PIRG’s 2007 Sarah Forslund Memorial Fellowship award. Sam graduated from Yale University in 2006 with a degree in Comparative Literature.
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Green Corps was launched by U.S. PIRG in 1992. The mission of Green Corps is to train organizers, provide field support for today’s critical environmental campaigns, and graduate activists who possess the skills, temperament, and commitment to fight and win tomorrow’s environmental battles.
