Maggie Fox Keynote at AASHE 2010 Conference

President and CEO, The Alliance for Climate Protection

Sunday Evening, October 10, 2010

Maggie Fox veteran of numerous national issue, political and environmental campaigns having spent 30 years working to mobilize Americans to take action.

Maggie is currently the President and CEO for the Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 2006 by Vice President and Nobel laureate Al Gore, who currently serves as the chairman of the board of directors.

Maggie is past National President of America Votes, a progressive coalition of over 40 organizations spearheading the largest voter mobilization and education effort in the nation. America Votes and its national partner organizations worked in 12 targeted states in 2006 to raise awareness and to engage and mobilize voters on a broad range of issues including the economy, health care, the environment, and education. America Votes leads the coordinated GOTV efforts of all of the nation's leading progressive organizations.

Previously, Maggie served as the Deputy Executive Director of the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest and largest grassroots environmental advocacy organization. With many years of federal and state policy and electoral experience, Maggie provided strategic oversight and leadership to the Sierra Club, one of the nation's most respected and effective institutions, according to the Aspen Institute. Maggie oversaw the start of the Sierra Club's decadal strategic shift to focus primarily on building environmental community, and led numerous federal, state and regional policy efforts on climate change, energy policy, western public lands and water, Native American natural resource issues and agricultural reform in her 20 years with the Sierra Club.

Most recently, Maggie has consulted with a number of organizations on their energy and climate campaigns including the Energy Future Coalition, Western Resource Advocates, and the Ocean Conservancy.

Maggie began her career as a teacher and community organizer on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations of Arizona and New Mexico and worked for the Colorado, North Carolina and Northwest Outward Bound Schools for over a decade. She earned her B.A. from the University of North Carolina, a Masters in Education from the University of Colorado, and a J.D. with an emphasis in Environmental Law and Native America Natural Resources Law from Northwestern School of Law. Maggie lives in Eldorado Canyon, Colorado with her husband and two children.

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