Career Placement

Career Placement: Growing the Movement

After completing the training program, Green Corps connects graduates to groups looking to hire organizers. Green Corps graduates have taken jobs with Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Environment America, Rainforest Action Network, National Wildlife Federation, 350.org, and NRDC, among others. Because these groups need trained organizers to lead major environmental campaigns, Green Corps organizers are able to find professional positions immediately after their year of training.
Green Corps graduates infuse the environmental movement with visionary ideas and tactical skills in grassroots organizing, making a significant impact on some of today's most pressing environmental issues.

Green Corps Alumni Leadership Profiles

Sarah Hodgdon, Class of 1994
Conservation Director, Sierra Club
As a Green Corps organizer, Sarah worked in Minneapolis on a campaign to protect ancient forests. Today, she oversees the Sierra Club’s national campaigns and programs including the Beyond Coal, Beyond Oil, and Resilient Habitats campaigns. Sarah is at the helm of the organization's plan to double the number of staff and activists committed to replacing as much as one-third of the nation's coal plants with clean energy by 2020.  

Kimberly Larson, Class of 1996
Communications Director, Climate Solutions
As a Green Corps organizer, Kimberly organized citizens of East Palo Alto to fight the expansion of a toxic waste facility.  Today, she brings 16 years of communications and organizing experience to Climate Solutions, a Pacific Northwest organization that works for local, regional and national action on climate and clean energy. She is focused on Power Past Coal, a campaign to prevent the West Coast from becoming a high volume coal corridor.

Justin Ruben, Class of 1997
Executive Director, MoveOn.org
During his Green Corps year, Justin led a boycott campaign of old-growth redwood lumber to protect endangered forests with Rainforest Action Network. Today, he leads MoveOn.org, a family of organizations with over 5 million members across America, working for progressive change. He was a primary architect of MoveOn's field organizing program, launching their organizing efforts in the 2004 elections and creating MoveOn's network of local member councils.  

Phil Radford, Class of 1999
Executive Director, Greenpeace
As a Green Corps organizer in 1999, Phil led the Ozone Action student divestment campaign at the University of Washington. Today, he leads Greenpeace’s national team of 500 environmental staff working in 23 cities across the United States on national and global campaigns to protect our planet’s oceans, forests and climate.  Phil is a regular contributor to Huffington Post and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, NBC and ABC News.

Antha Williams, Class of 2000
Senior Vice President, Corridor Partners
As a Green Corps organizer in 2000, Antha led the Heritage Forests Campaign. Today, she advises donors and organizations investing in advocacy and electoral efforts to build bipartisan support for climate and clean energy policy. She brings deep experience with public policy campaigns, philanthropy and grassroots organizing from her prior work with Atlantic Philanthropies, Beldon Fund and Green Corps.

Lisa Archer, Class of 2001
Director, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Breast Cancer Fund
As a Green Corps organizer, Lisa launched a coalition campaign for an International Right to Know law that would force U.S. corporations operating abroad to disclose their records on the environment and human rights. Lisa co-founded and now directs a national coalition campaign that works to protect the health of consumers and workers by securing the corporate, regulatory and legislative reforms necessary to eliminate dangerous chemicals from cosmetics and personal care products.

Natalie Foster, Class of 2002
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Rebuild the Dream
During her Green Corps year, Natalie worked to protect the Arctic Refuge on behalf of the Alaska Wilderness League in Atlanta, Ga. Today, she works with Van Jones to drive the 21st-century movement to renew the American Dream. She works to harness the power of media and technology to mobilize, organize and broaden the base of people working to fix America’s economy and restore our democracy.

Sam Goldman, Class of 2004
California Program Director, Conservation Lands Foundation
As a Green Corps organizer, Sam worked on behalf of Clear the Air in Indiana to help defeat the Clear Skies Initiative and President Bush’s dirty energy bill. Today, Sam is working to protect, restore and expand the 28 million acres of National Conservation Lands through education, advocacy and partnerships. Prior to this role, Sam coordinated California wilderness campaigns for The Wilderness Society.

Eva Hernandez, Class of 2005
Senior Organizing Manager, Sierra Club
During her Green Corps year, Eva helped win the Dogwood Alliance’s campaign to protect the Cumberland Plateau. Today, based in Austin, Texas, Eva coordinates organizing efforts for the Sierra Club’s South Central Region. She recently celebrated an important victory when, after years of pressuring the city government and the mayor, the city of San Antonio announced it would shut down its coal-fired power plant and replace it with solar power.

Claire Miller, Class of 2008
Community Organizer, Toxics Action Center
With Green Corps, Claire worked on behalf of the Sierra Club to build grassroots support for the Global Warming Solutions Act in Maryland, which became law in 2009.  Today, Claire works with community activists in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts and is focused on cleaning up hazardous waste sites, shutting down dirty and dangerous waste facilities and power plants, reducing pesticide use, and promoting clean water, safe energy and zero waste.

Ryan Rastegar, Class of 2009
Campaign Coordinator, Restore the Mississippi Delta Campaign
As a Green Corps organizer, Ryan helped win a clean energy ballot initiative in Missouri, by educating voters in the Columbia region on behalf of Missourians for Cleaner, Cheaper Energy.  Today, Ryan is helping to build local and national support for the creation and implementation of a Mississippi River Delta restoration plan that will support local communities, ensure a vibrant economy and safeguard wildlife populations for generations to come.

Sriram Madhusoodanan, Class of 2010
National Campaign Organizer, Corporate Accountability International
As a Green Corps organizer, Sriram ran the Beyond Coal Campaign at the University of Virginia. Today, he works with Corporate Accountability International, a membership organization with a 35-year track record of protecting health by challenging corporate abuse. Sriram leads organizing efforts for Value [the] Meal — a public education and action campaign challenging McDonald’s and the fast food industry to stop junk food marketing to kids.

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