Ellie Johnston

Public Engagement Program Lead, Climate Interactive

ejohnstonaahtclimateinteractive.org

Biography

Ellie cultivates Climate Interactive’s public engagement, which includes managing the World Climate Project and The Climate Leader. Through this, Ellie is working to deepen and expand global understanding on how to act on climate change and related systemic challenges by bridging the gaps between science and policy.

Ellie is a past Chair of SustainUS and now sits on the Board of Directors. At SustainUS, she created a leadership development program to support youth-led sustainability initiatives across the US and led youth delegations to United Nations conferences. She has tracked the UN negotiations around climate change and sustainable development for nearly a decade and presented at numerous UN events. Prior to Climate Interactive, Ellie brought together hundreds of authors for the ten-volume Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, where she was an editing and project coordinator. She is a founder of several grassroots efforts on climate change, and advises campaign strategy and network development for organizations. Ellie has spent time as a researcher of climate impacts on high altitude biological systems and also the effectiveness of efforts to institutionalize sustainability in higher education. Ellie has a B.S. in biology from the University of North Carolina Asheville.

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