An Interview with Kathleen Rogers, President of EarthDay.org

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About Kathleen Rogers

Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network. Under her leadership, EARTHDAY.ORG has grown into a global year-round policy and activist organization with an international professional staff.

Kathleen  has been at the vanguard of developing campaigns and programs focused  on diversifying the environmental movement. In 2002, she spearheaded the  creation of Campaign for Communities (C4C). C4C is a coalition of  African American and Latino partner organizations focused on voter  registration and voter mobilization, which also works year-round on  environmental issues in low income communities. Kathleen also helped  create innovative financial mechanisms to “green” low income schools and  communities. She created the National Civic Education campaign, which  works with K-12 schools on projects that solve local environmental  issues while teaching civic skills.

Kathleen  also founded Earth Day Network’s groundbreaking Billion Acts of Green  program, which has now recorded close to 3 billion individual actions to  improve the environment. She is a frequent commentator on environmental  issues in the media and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and NPR, as well  as in Time Magazine, The Washington Post, the New York Times, and The  Los Angeles Times and many other international and national newspapers  and journals.

Prior  to her work at Earth Day Network, Kathleen held senior positions with  the National Audubon Society, the Environmental Law Institute, and two  U.S. Olympic Organizing Committees. As Chief Wildlife Counsel for the  National Audubon Society, she oversaw international trade, migratory  species, and biodiversity programs, and was responsible for bringing the  first citizen complaint before the Commission for Environmental  Cooperation, the tri-national agency created to oversee North American  environmental issues. She also worked for the BBC and other television  networks. She once owned a bakery with a friend who was on the U.S. luge  team.

Kathleen  serves on various boards and as Regional Focal point for North America  Region of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Network of the Global  Environment Facility (GEF), now known as the GEF-CSO Network to serve a  four-year term from June 30, 2018, to June 29, 2022. She is an advisor  and judge for a number of global prizes, including the annual Hult Prize  which awards $1 million to college teams who create companies that  solve pressing social issues.

She  is a graduate of the University of California at Davis School of Law,  where she served as editor-in-chief of the law review and clerked in the  United States District Court for the District of Columbia.