Green Corps Board

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.

Wendy launched her social change career in 1984 as a campus organizer with WashPIRG. Today, as Political Director of The Public Interest Network she manages external relations and advises many of the network’s individual member organizations.  She has directed numerous campaigns including ballot measure campaigns on issues including nuclear waste and toxic waste cleanup, campaign finance reform, and genetically engineered food.  During the 2004 and 2008  election cycle, Wendy was actively involved in developing and launching the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project and Progressive Future Education Fund’s Community Voters Project, which together resulted in more than 1,000,000  young, urban and minority voters registered.  In 2008, she was a leader in Progressive Future’s program to elect Barack Obama through a 12 state, 64 office door-to-door voter contact program.  Wendy currently serves on the boards of Green Corps and 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 the Environment California Research and Policy Center.

As Associate Training Director for The Public Interest Network, Naomi oversees the training and development of entry-level organizers for Green Corps, the State PIRGs, Environment America, the Fund for the Public Interest and more. Prior to taking on her role as Associate Training Director, Naomi found her calling in the training of environmental organizers with Green Corps, where she served as Executive Director for four years, from 2004 – 2008.  She joined Green Corps staff in 1999 and served for four years as Green Corps' Senior Organizing Director, responsible for developing and managing dozens of environmental campaigns with groups such as Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund, Alaska Coalition, Clear the Air, Corporate Accountability International, and the National Parks Conservation Association. Naomi led teams of organizers that helped to recruit 5,000 students to a student environmental conference in 1999, launch groundbreaking global warming campaigns in 2000 and 2001, and generate grassroots pressure to stop Arctic drilling in 2002 and 2003. Naomi serves on the board of Toxics Action Center, an organization that helps neighborhood groups across New England fight toxic pollution in their communities. She is a graduate of Skidmore College.

As the Executive Director of Greenpeace, Phil leads a national team of 500 highly-skilled environmental leaders working in 23 cities across the U.S. on national and global campaigns to protect our planet’s oceans, forests, and climate. Prior to taking on his current role, Phil worked as Greenpeace’s Grassroots and National Canvass Director for six years. During that period, his team doubled the budget of Greenpeace in the U.S., quadrupled its staff, launched a national student-organizing program, and created an online to offline mobilization program.

Phil began his environmental career as a student organizing to shut down incinerators on the West Side of Chicago. He spent the next five years running door to door fundraising and campaign offices for PIRG, the Sierra Club, and the Human Rights Campaign. After college, Phil was a Lead Organizer in the Green Corps Class of 1999.  Phil is a regular contributor to Huffington Post and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, NBC, and ABC News. Phil has a degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and a certificate in Non-profit Management from Georgetown University.