The Executive Committee is the central seven-person elected body that governs our student-run organization. Members set the direction for the organization; monitor and assist the organization’s progress by participating in fundraising efforts and budget allocation decisions, support organizational structure and facilitate communication between committees, and works to monitor, increase and strengthen membership and leadership. The Executive Committee also works to develop personal strategic relationships with other Sierra Club entities including the Sierra Club board, leaders of national committees, chapters and programs and develop programs to further collaborate and advocate for Club policies that benefit the SSC.
The ExCom is elected every year by the general membership.
2008-2009 Executive Committee Elections
Want to lead the nation's largest youth grassroots environmental organization? Run for the SSC's Executive Committee!
Read the Executive Committee job description and submit your nomination by April 18, 2008!
2007-2008 Executive Committee
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Erica Stout, Chair
Erica started at the University of Maryland this Spring, after a year and a half at Towson University. She is currently Co-Coordinating the Maryland Student Climate Coalition, a student coalition working to make the Maryland System the first on the East Coast to go Carbon Neutral. In her third year in the Sierra Student Coalition, Erica is currently the chair of the Executive Committee and also serves on the Personnel Committee and as the Ex-Com representative to the Anti-Oppression Committee. Between activist endeavors, Erica finds time to study sociology and women’s studies, play board games, enjoy feminist art and watch [really bad] reality TV. Craig Altemose (201) 841-7105 craig [at] ssc.org  A recent addition to the Climate Change Movement, Craig is currently in his second year of a joint Public Policy & Law degree at Harvard Law School & the Kennedy School of Government after graduating from Eckerd College in 2006. He is a member of the Conservation Committee and has been heavily involved in the planning of Power Shift. He is most concerned about the human suffering that will result from climate change, finding his roots in the peace and social justice movement. He enjoys soccer, frisbee, and advocating for a multiparty democracy here in the USA.
Ty Dawson(513) 659-3732 ty [at] ssc.org |
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Ty is starting his fourth year at Ohio University in Athens Ohio; he is working toward a degree in Political Science. Over the next year he hopes to build up a strong base of leaders in his home state, and work for larger scale change in Ohio. Along with his work on energy and justice with the he is also on the Trainings committee and works with the Sierra Clubs Global Population and Environment Program on their youth outreach campaign, “The Fate of the World is in your Hands… and Your Pants,” where he works to show the connection between reproductive health and rights and the environment.
Timothy DenHerder-Thomas
Timothy DenHerder-Thomas is a student at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, originally from NJ. He serves on the Personell Committee, and the Campaign and Meterials Subcommittee of the Conservation Committee. Timothy is focused on community-based sustainable development in the US and around the world, and has gotten involved in energy efficiency finance, wind energy development, state and regional campus organizing, and global carbon policy. When not building people power, Timothy spends his time light-weight backpacking and reading just about everything. Kat McEachern
Having joined the SSC five years ago as a high school sophomore, Katherine is currently in her third year at Cornell University where she studies Design and Environmental Analysis. She serves on the Conservation Committee and as well as the Executive Committee. She also enjoys dance parties, creating campaign material on Photoshop and cheering for Cornell hockey.
Andrew Nazdin
Andrew is a sophomore at the University of Maryland, currently majoring in government and politics. Andrew devotes most of his organizing time towards carbon neutrality in the University System of Maryland, as well as sitting on the Trainings Logistics Committee. During his free time, Andrew enjoys riding his bike at unsafe speeds, duck-pin bowling and making pancakes. David Sievers
Working with the SSC has been a defining aspect of David's life. Now a fifth year college student, David's start with the SSC came his freshman year of high school. After three years on the SSC's Trainings Committee, David is serving in his first year on ExCom. When not working for school or the SSC, David can be found cooking with too much garlic and too little oil. |
