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Principal Trainers

Bob Bingaman, Field Director for the Sierra Club, serves as a Green Corps principal trainer.

Bob Bingaman, Field Director, Sierra Club

Andy MacDonald, Assistant National Campus Organizing Director, The Student PIRGs

Douglas Phelps, Chair, U.S. PIRG

Naomi Roth, Executive Director, Green Corps

Adam Ruben, Political Director, MoveOn.org 

Leslie Samuelrich, Deputy Director, Corporate Accountability International 

Wendy Wendlandt, Political Director, U.S. PIRG 

 

Guest Trainers 

Gina Cummings, Director of U.S. and International Campaigns for Oxfam America, speaks to Green Corps trainees.

• Parker Blackman, Managing Director, Fenton Communications

• Michael Brune, Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network

• Gina Cummings, Director of U.S. and International Campaigns, Oxfam America

• Dave Foreman, founder, EarthFirst!

• Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Heat Is On

• Lois Gibbs, Director, CHEJ: Center for Health, Environment, and Justice

• Randy Hayes, founder, Rainforest Action Network

• Jim Hightower, progressive author and activist

• Judith Helfand, filmmaker, A Healthy Baby Girl and Blue Vinyl

• Dolores Huerta, Co-founder, United Farm Workers

• Gene Karpinski, President, League of Conservation Voters

• Michael Marx, Executive Director, Business Ethics Network

• Bill McKibben, author and founder of Step It Up

• David Orr, environmental educator

• John Passacantando, Executive Director, Greenpeace

• Wade Rathke, Chief Organizer, SEIU Local 100


 

 

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"The earth, which is taking a beating at human hands, is awash with people who express concern about it, but there is a drought of people able to organize to stop the abuse. Green Corps prepares university graduates for the essential commitment to end the drought."

- The late David Brower, Chair, Earth Island Institute