China Brotsky

Vice Chair and Treasurer

China Brotsky is an active leader in the global social justice movement who uses her skills in finance, operations and governance to support organizations in the environmental justice, climate, anti-corporate power and immigrant rights movements. She served most recently as a senior leader at SumOfUs, a global online corporate accountability organization.

Chibeze Ezekiel

Chibeze is the coordinator of the Strategic Youth Network for Development (SYND), which convenes the Youth in Natural Resources and Environmental Governance (Youth-NREG) Platform in Ghana. He is a certified Youth Master Trainer on Climate Change and an appointed National SDGs Champion by CARE Denmark. He is also a co-founder of 350 Ghana Reducing our Carbon (G-ROC), the local chapter of 350.org. He has significant experience in promoting youth inclusion in the governance of the natural resources and environmental sector.

Jessy Tolkan

Currently focused on shifting the auto-industry in a more sustainable direction, Jessy has spent the last decade as a movement leader working to build progressive change. She recently served as Citizen Engagement Laboratory’s Co-Executive Director. She was a Senior Fellow with the New Organizing Institute consulting on progressive infrastructure building, the 2012 youth vote, and next steps for the climate & energy sector. Before switching her attention to the progressive movement at large, Jessy was the Executive Director for the Energy Action Coalition.

Terry Odendahl

Terry has spent more than 50 years bridging the gap between our natural and human worlds. She is the retired President and CEO of Global Greengrants Fund, where she served for over a decade. An anthropologist by training, Terry has held faculty positions at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute; the University of California, San Diego; and Yale University. She is the author or editor of four books: Charity Begins at Home: Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic Elite; America’s Wealthy and the Future of Foundations; Women and Power in the Nonprofit Sector; and Career Patterns in Philanthropy.

Bill McKibben

Bill is Founder and Senior Advisor at 350.org and is the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is a 2014 recipient of the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the 'alternative Nobel' and is a founding fellow of the Sanders Institute. Bill has written a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published 25 years ago, and his most recent, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?