Kathleen Rogers
President, EARTHDAY.ORG
United States of America
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.