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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. 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. PARTIAL LIST OF GREEN CORPS GRADUATES 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) EXTERNAL LINKS Official Green Corps site http://www.greencorps.org A partial list of Green Corps alumni: http://www.greencorps.org/alumni.asp?id2=19469 Criticism of Green Corps from 2 former employees (written in 2003): http://www.nonprofitwatch.org/greencorps/ Some Green Corps graduates response to Non Profit Watch: http://www.seac.org/threshold-backup/threshold-april-2004.pdf A Princeton Review article on Green Corps: http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/roadtripnation/greenCorps.asp |
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