As Executive Director, Josh coordinates our campaign partnerships, fundraising, and alumni training programs. He was also Campaigns Director of Green Corps from 2010 until 2012. Before joining Green Corps, Josh was the Save the Sierra campaigner for ForestEthics, where he worked to shift the logging practices of California's largest forest destroyer. He also played a critical role in ForestEthics’ successful campaign to convince Victoria’s Secret to adopt one of the most environmentally robust catalog policies created. Prior to joining ForestEthics, Josh was the North Coast Organizer for the California Wilderness Coalition, where he helped to protect more than 280,000 acres of wild lands as wilderness. During his Green Corps training year, Josh worked on a campaign to protect the Arctic Refuge from oil drilling and helped launch the Sierra Club’s first corporate campaign against Ford Motor Company. Josh is a 2003 graduate of Green Corps and a 2002 graduate of Wesleyan University.
Staff
Josh Buswell-Charkow
Annie Sanders
As Organizing Director, Annie helps to run Green Corps classroom trainings, lead field campaigns with partner organizations and oversee the Assistant Organizing Directors. She has directed field efforts on behalf of Food & Water Watch, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Fair Share Alliance, Energy Action Coalition and National Wildlife Federation, among others. Annie also coordinated the grassroots campaign, on behalf of CREDO Action, to protect California’s global warming law in the fall of 2010, where she helped lead an effort that contacted over 100,000 voters. Prior to joining Green Corps, Annie was a student activist and athlete at University of Chicago. She received a degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Chicago in 2006 and graduated from Green Corps in 2007.
Aaron Myran
Over the last three years, Aaron has directed the recruitment and hiring of each incoming Green Corps class. Aaron has also worked with the Fund for the Public Interest and Work for Progress to hire dozens of campus organizers, citizen outreach and voter registration directors and assisted in the development of online-databases for staff recruitment and field campaigns. Aaron has served as a trainer at numerous student activist conferences and has directed citizen outreach campaign offices in Illinois and Georgia. Aaron graduated from Green Corps in 2010 where he worked with 1Sky to recruit and train 170 Climate Precinct Captains in Albuquerque, New Mexico – committed citizen activists leading grassroots efforts in their communities for strong climate solutions. Aaron graduated from Queen’s University in 2009 with a degree in Biology. While at Queen’s, he worked as an organizer with the Sierra Youth Coalition.
Ryan Doyle
As an Assistant Organizing Director, Ryan helps to run Green Corps classroom training, works directly with current Green Corps organizers, and leads field campaigns with partner organizations. During his year as a Green Corps Organizer, Ryan helped launch the Sierra Club’s Campuses Beyond Coal Campaign, organizing students at the University of Missouri to pressure their campus to move off of coal. He has also led field campaigns with Environment Virginia to push for comprehensive climate change legislation, with Food and Water Watch to promote a more just and sustainable food system, and with MASSPIRG to move towards zero waste. Prior to working with Green Corps, Ryan was an Organizing Assistant with Corporate Accountability International’s Think Outside the Bottle Campaign and attended St. Olaf College in Minnesota. At St. Olaf, Ryan was active in student government and served as captain of the Varsity Track and Field team. Ryan received a degree in Environmental Studies and Political Science from St. Olaf College in 2009 and graduated with the Green Corps class of 2010.
Peter Sargent
Peter works to provide training and support to Green Corps organizers, while managing strategic field campaigns on behalf of our partner organizations. Prior to joining Green Corps, Peter served as a Canvass Director for the Fund for the Public Interest in Boulder, Colorado. In this role, he managed grassroots fundraising and campaign efforts on behalf of Environment Colorado and COPIRG. Peter and his staff recruited and activated Environment Colorado members to convince Governor Ritter to sign the Clean Air, Clean Jobs bill into law in 2010. As a result, five metro-area coal units are being evaluated for replacement by cleaner sources of energy, cleaning up the air for 3 million Coloradans. Peter graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2008 with a degree in International Studies, with a concentration in International Environmental Policy, with minors in Environmental Studies, and Writing Seminars. Before coming to activism, Peter was a cowboy in Wyoming.
