Green Corps

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Green Corps is a non-profit organization based in the United States which focuses on furthering the environmental movement.

Green Corps is the Field School for Environmental Organizing. Green Corps runs a one-year, full-time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program that gives instruction and experience to recent college graduates interested in launching an organizing and advocacy career. According to the Green Corps website, the program includes intensive classroom training, hands-on field experience running urgent environmental and public health campaigns, and career placement in permanent leadership positions with leading environmental groups. It has an attrition rate similar to other first-year organizer training programs[citation needed].

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[edit] Partial list of Green Corps graduates

[edit] Global Warming and Energy

  • Bernadette Del Chiaro, Energy Advocate, Environment California (GC '98)
  • Roger Smith, Connecticut Campaign Director, Clean Water Action (GC '02)
  • Frank Gorke, Energy Advocate, MASSPIRG (GC '00)
  • Colleen Sarna, Global Warming and Conservation Organizer, Sierra Club (GC '02)
  • Leila Salazar, ChevronToxico Campaign Organizer, Amazon Watch, (GC '99)
  • Meghan Shaw, Organizer, Union of Concerned Scientists, (GC '04)
  • Bill Holland, Field Organizer, Apollo Alliance, (GC '01)
  • Phil Radford, Field Director, Greenpeace (GC '99)

[edit] Wilderness and Wildlife

  • Eric Antebi, National Press Secretary, Sierra Club (GC '94)
  • Liz Butler, Organizing Director, Forest Ethics (GC '96)
  • Sarah Hodgdon, Executive Director, Dogwood Alliance (GC '93)
  • Tom Mooers, Executive Director, Sierra Watch (GC '93)
  • Sarah Matsumoto, National Field Director, Endangered Species Coalition (GC '99)
  • Melissa Waage, Policy Analyst, Center for Biological Diversity (GC '02)
  • Emily Platt, Executive Director, Gifford Pinchot Task Force (GC '01)
  • Tom Gilbert, Eastern Forests Campaign Director, The Wilderness Society (GC '93)

[edit] Public Health and Toxics

  • Lisa Archer, Campaign Coordinator, Health and Environment Program, Friends of the Earth (GC'01)
  • Gina Coplon-Newfield, Health Action AIDS Campaign Director, Physicians for Human Rights (GC'97)
  • Susan Comfort, Vice President for Finance, Environmental Working Group, (GC '94)
  • Gregg Small, Executive Director, Washington Toxics Coalition (GC'94)
  • Alyssa Schuren, Executive Director, Toxics Action Center (GC '02)
  • Vanessa Pierce, Community Organizer, HEAL Utah (GC '03)
  • Vanessa Marvin, Organizing Coordinator, The Center for Tobacco Policy and Organizing (GC'01)
  • Kim DeFeo, Co-Director, National Grassroots Environmental Justice Organizing Program (GC '00)

[edit] Democracy

  • Adam Ruben, Political Director, MoveOn.org PAC (GC '93)
  • Kimberly Larson, Deputy Political Director, National Association of State PIRGs (GC '96)
  • Pete Maysmith, Executive Director, Colorado Common Cause (GC '93)
  • Melanie Nutter, Deputy District Director, Office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, (GC '94)
  • Heather Smith, Director, Young Voter Strategies (GC '99)
  • Ted Halstead, President, New America Foundation, (GC '93)
  • Jessica Hamilton, Legislative Affairs Director, Oregon League of Conservation Voters, (GC '95)
  • David Edeli, Senior Field Organizer, Public Citizen (GC '01)
  • Arshad Hasan, Training Coordinator, Democracy for America (GC '04)
  • Erin Casey, Field Organizer, Grassroots Campaigns (GC '99)

[edit] Social Change

  • Peter Colavito, Political Director, SEIU 32BJ, GC'94 (GC '94)
  • Valerie Orth, Sweatfree Organizer, Global Exchange (GC '01)
  • Matt Stembridge, Director of Environmental Advocacy, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, (GC '00)
  • Patti Lynn, Campaign Director, Corporate Accountability International (GC '97)
  • Dan Firger, Global Finance Organizer, Rainforest Action Network (GC '02)
  • Ben MacConnell, Recruitment Director, Direct Action Research and Training Center (GC '98)
  • Parker Blackman, Managing Director, Fenton Communications (GC '93)

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