Gillian Caldwell

Gillian Caldwell is an American consultant working with foundations and non-profits, including the Center for Community Change and the Bertha Foundation.

Biography

Caldwell has been the president of Gillian Caldwell Consulting LLC since late 2010, serving as an executive coach, strategic planner, retreat facilitator, and organizational development consultant to NGOs, as well as corporations, films, and the White House. In 2013, she was the producer, along with Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, of Citizen Koch, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Citizen Koch was the subject of a New Yorker article by Jane Mayer.

Caldwell spent three years from 2007-2010 as the campaign director of 1Sky,[1] one of the largest collaborative campaigns on climate change in the United States. 1Sky’s goal was to create five million green jobs through an energy efficiency and conservation wave, to enact a federal cap on global warming pollution with steep reductions in carbon pollution, and to transition the United States off of coal and onto renewable energy sources.

Prior to her work at 1Sky, Caldwell served as executive director at WITNESS. WITNESS was co-founded by musician Peter Gabriel to empower human rights advocates to use video to create change. At WITNESS, Caldwell co-authored Video For Change: A Guide to Advocacy and Activism and produced and directed videos on human rights challenges worldwide, including Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the War on Terror, Operation Fine Girl: The Use of Rape as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone and Behind the Labels: Garment Workers on US Saipan.

From 1995-1997, Caldwell served as the co-director of the Global Survival Network where she organized a two-year undercover investigation into Russian Mafia involvement in trafficking women for forced prostitution with her colleague Steven Galster. Her work was cited in a book by David Bales titled Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Caldwell produced and directed Bought & Sold: An Investigative Documentary into the Trade in Women which received media coverage in the United States and abroad, including specials on ABC Primetime Live, CNN, and BBC.

Caldwell was a Public Interest Law Scholar at Georgetown University (1989–1992), and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1988.

Personal

She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland with her partner Louis Spitzer and their two children.

References

  1. ↑ Eric Pooley's "The Climate War" page 292 ISBN 978-1-4013-2326-4

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