Inside the SSC > Executive Committee

The seven person Executive Committee handles budget, Big Issues, and annoying bureaucratic messes. The ExCom is elected every year by the general membership.

2006-2007 Executive Committee

Adi Nochur
(617) 967-1740
adi [at] ssc.org
Katherine McEachern, Chair
(704) 517-9069
katherine.mceachern [at] ssc.org

Aditya (Adi) Nochur is a Massachusetts native and an outgoing senior at Tufts University.  He works as a Boston Community Organizer for the SSC and also sits on the Environmental Justice and Executive Committees.  Adi also does a lot of organizing with the national Energy Action Coalition and enjoys reading, traveling (especially to India) and guitar-ing in his spare time.

Having joined the SSC four years ago as a high school sophomore, Katherine is currently in her second year at Cornell University where she studies Design and Environmental Analysis. She serves on the Conservation Committee and is the Executive Committee chair. She also enjoys dance parties, creating campaign material on Photoshop and cheering for Cornell hockey.
   
Sasha Shahidi
(952) 926-5640
sasha.shahidi [at] ssc.org
Micah Ziegler
(301) 351-5428
micah.ziegler [at] ssc.org

Sasha is a sophomore at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, but she is proud to be from the best state ever...that is, Minnesota. She does community organizing in the Philadelphia area along with serving on Personnel and Executive Committees. Sasha has been involved with the SSC for about three years, and considers it one of the best things in her life.

Micah is from Bethesda, Maryland and a junior at Yale University.  He is a campus organizer of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition and Yale Climate Campaign.  Currently, his focus is energy resources and conservation and global warming.
   
Erica Stout
(301) 787-2059
erica.stout [at] ssc.org
Rachel Ackoff
(909) 964-9547
rachel.ackoff [at] ssc.org
Erica is from Maryland and is a freshman at Towson University outside Baltimore. She helped found an energy group at Towson her first semester, which is working on the Campus Climate Challenge. In addition to serving on the Executive Committee, she also serves as chair of the Environmental Justice Committee and is on Personnel Committee. Erica loves playing with her dog and meeting new activists. She is also very passionate about human rights, racism and feminism.

For the past six years, Rachel has found a home in the SSC, inspired by the passion of fellow SSC'ers. She currently coordinates the Pennsylvania network for the SSC and serves on the Conservation and Executive Committees. Originally from Claremont, California, Rachel is a senior at Swarthmore College, outside Philadelphia. Rachel enjoys camping and hiking, playing board games, and cooking vegan Shabbat dinners.

   
Nora Sharp
(312) 965-0148
nora.sharp [at] ssc.org
 Andrew Nazdin
(301) 758-8186
andrew.nazdin [at] ssc.org
 

Nora hails from Chicago, IL and is currently in her second year at Oberlin College in northeast Ohio.  She splits her organizing time between on-campus sustainability projects and progressive political campaigns in Ohio, towards the greater goal of creating a broad coalition of the left amongst youth in the Midwest.  She splits her free time between reading novels and surfing cheap travel websites.

Andrew is a freshman at the University of Maryland, currently majoring in political science.  Andrew devotes most of his organizing time towards the SSC’s summer project, as well as sitting on the Trainings, and Environmental Justice and Executive Committees. Look for Andrew, coming soon to a SPROG near you.
   
 
Juan Martinez
(323) 420-6955
juan.martinez [at] ssc.org

Juan Martinez grew up in Los Angeles. He has coordinated campaigns to stop construction of power plants in Baldwin Hills area, a predomonently low-income community, and to relocate a silver platting factory located directly accross from an elementary school. He attends Los Angeles City College as a full time student and works as a community organizer for ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Juan serves as youth coordinator for Building Bridges to The Outdoors, a Sierra Club program to promote and advocate for all youth to experience outdoor environmental education. He directed the first ever Environmental Justice Youth Leadership Training within the Sierra Club and Sierra Student Coalition, and is recipient of the Hilda L. Solis Youth Leadership Award.