The Time for Environmental Action is NOW!

Speaker Biography

Ellie Cohen, CEO of The Climate Center, is a leader in catalyzing cross-boundary, collaborative, and just solutions to climate change and environmental degradation. An honors graduate of Duke University (botany) and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (MPP), Ellie has received numerous accolades including the Beyond Duke Alumni Award for Service and Leadership (2019), the National Park Service Pacific West Region Partnership Award (2018) and the Bay Nature Environmental Hero Award (2012). She was named one of “100 Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet” in the US by the National Women’s History Project (2009) and was selected to participate in the Climate Reality Project’s second training with Vice President Al Gore (2007).

Ellie served as President and CEO of Point Blue Conservation Science for 20 years where she and the organization’s 160+ scientists developed climate-smart solutions for wildlife and people. Under her leadership, the organization grew five-fold to a workforce of 200 and was invited as an Observer NGO to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Ellie currently serves as an appointed member of the San Anselmo Sustainability Commission. You can follow Ellie on LinkedIn and Twitter.



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