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Changing the Conversation on Climate Change

NNOCCI Leadership

NNOCCI is led by a governing structure with an elected Board of Directors and volunteers serving on committees and teams.

The Governing Council is responsible for planning and executing NNOCCI’s strategic direction and priorities, making network-wide decisions and policies on behalf of all network members, and serving as NNOCCI ambassadors to broader constituencies. We are guided by our goals to sustain, deepen, and expand the network.

Governing Council

Science Committee

The Science Committee is responsible for expanding NNOCCI’s reach within the scientific community, deepening the scientific content of our network members, and sustaining relationships between our Science Fellows and Educators.

Communications Committee

The Communications Committee helps the network grow by sharing NNOCCI’s message, research, and hope to a broader, external coalition of climate communicators and sustaining our connection to each other by supporting internal communication efforts such as the network newsletter and webinars.

Member Engagement Committee

The Member Engagement Committee sustains and deepens the NNOCCI network by facilitating participation in the network to ensure a community-driven sustainable system.

Training Committee

The Training Committee is responsible for expanding NNOCCI’s footprint through oversight of our training programs and resources that grow and support a network of well-trained climate change communicators.

JEDI Council

The JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion) Council is a team of passionate social and climate advocates who work across committees to help the NNOCCI community become more diverse, inclusive, and accessible internally, and to deepen and enrich our trainings with a human-centered focus on the links between climate change and social and environmental justice and equity.

Impact and Evaluation Committee

The Impact and Evaluation Committee works to better understand and advance NNOCCI’s impacts in changing the national discourse on climate change toward a more positive, civic-minded and solutions-focused message.

Board of Directors

President & Project Coordinator

Kait Birghenthal

Communications Director

Katie Russell

Curriculum Director

Kayla McCurry

JEDI Director

Jeanette Johnston

Membership Engagement Director

Cassie Klein

Science Director

Melissa Partyka

Secretary

Christina Schwandt

Training Director

Jenny Arbuszewski

Fiscal Sponsor Representative

Adam Ratner

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