Liz brings nearly 30 years of experience organizing, campaigning, and movement building with a focus on both corporate and legislative campaigns. Liz has extensive experience in convening networks, building alliances, facilitating, running campaigns, organizing, direct action, training, and developing strategy. She recently was Friends of the Earth’s Vice President of organizing and strategic alliances and has worked with the Movement Strategy Center as the Network Organizing Project Director where she worked with a range of social justice, economic justice, climate justice, fossil fuel resistance, and environmental justice.

During that time she partnered with many organizations and projects including 99% Spring, Stop the Frack Attack, Global Witness, OUR Walmart, the Gettysburg Project, and Friends of the Earth. Liz was also previously the Campaign Director (Executive Director/CEO equivalent) of 1Sky, a large-scale collaborative climate campaign. Liz managed a successful merger of 1Sky with 350 in 2011 after helping build and execute a successful campaign on climate and clean energy. Prior to 1Sky, Liz was a co-founder of ForestEthics, where she spent 10 years as the Organizing Director.

Bill is a campaigner and organizer with 35 years of experience in the labor movement, mostly with SEIU. At SEIU he led campaigns that combined direct action with corporate accountability and legal strategies to organize low wage workers.

He helped win a global organizing agreement with a company that had over half a million workers in over 100 countries. Since leaving SEIU two years ago, he has worked on climate change with a variety of groups, such as Stop the Money Pipeline, to stop the financing of the fossil fuel projects that drive climate disruption. As with his union work, his climate work focuses on combining grassroots organizing with corporate strategies to build our movement and change corporate behavior.

Abby is a human rights lawyer and policy advocate. Since law school, Abby has been investigating and challenging the myriad ways corporate actors negatively impact people and the planet as an Advocacy Counsel at the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR). In this capacity, Abby has served as the coordinator of an anti-strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) coalition; drafted and advocated for legislation to stop the use of SLAPPs and increase corporate liability for human rights abuses in their business operations; and conducted a wide variety of research in the areas of business and human rights and corporate accountability.

Abby holds bachelor degrees in International Business and Asian Studies from the University of Tulsa. She earned her Juris Doctor degree and a certificate in American Indian Law from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the American Indian Law Review. Abby is licensed to practice law in the State of Oklahoma and in Washington, DC.