Our 350Vermont Team!
Staff
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Organizational Development Lead
lily@350vt.org
Lily joined 350VT’s staff in 2017, and since the organization began shifting to a shared leadership model in 2019, Lily’s main focus has been tending that. She also works on trainings and education, especially the climate justice zine project. For the past 14 years, Lily has been involved in communities and study focused on permaculture, nonviolent communication, intentional communities, earth-based spirituality, and collective liberation. She lives in Burlington and gets to the lake and into the woods as often as she can. She loves making music and is notorious for getting people to sing together.
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Lead Fundraiser
carter@350vt.org
Carter joined 350VT in 2022 and serves as Lead Fundraiser. Carter’s roots in our collective movement stem from his time organizing around justice issues at UVM, working on Senator Sanders’ 2018 & 2020 campaigns, and running Progressive electoral campaigns here in Vermont. Most recently he served as Deputy Development & Operations Director for New Hampshire Youth Movement.
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Lead Organizer
vanessa@350vt.org
Vanessa has been organizing for climate justice since the fall of 2006 when she saw An Inconvenient Truth and decided to find people in her community of Somerville, MA who also wanted to do something about the problem. Since that time, she has connected with many passionate and dedicated people and worked with them to catalyze a just transition off fossil fuels. Her journey has included co-founding and co-leading Better Future Project and 350 Massachusetts and Mothers Out Front, a national organization focused on building the power of moms to address the climate crisis. She moved from Somerville to Strafford, VT 9 years ago with her two children Isabelle and Cedric. She has a passion for ensuring all voices are at the decision-making table and for developing the leadership of others so we can build the collective power we need to create the change we want.
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Lead Trainer
trainings @350vt.org
Sonia runs 350VT’s training programs and works internally on organizational development and finances. She is an experienced trainer, facilitator, and organizer who prioritizes using experiential and popular education techniques to train activists and organizers. She has over 15 years experience working in social justice movements, including as the Executive Director of the Washington Peace Center in DC and board member of Training for Change. Originally from New York, she now lives in Brattleboro, VT, where she supports local racial justice organizing, plays in the woods, and tries to keep up with a very energetic puppy.
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Empowering VT Organizer
rebecca@350vt.org
Rebecca has worked as a volunteer for the past decade with various climate justice organizations including 350VT, Sunrise Montpelier, and Citizens for Climate Advocacy. She's also worked as the Community Climate Program Manager for Climate Economy Action Center of Addison County.As a parent of a jubilant and curious five year old, the effects of climate change have become more poignant and tangible in her family's day to day life. At the same time, Rebecca is buoyed by the way our movement is growing and changing; she is thrilled to be joining the 350VT staff and working with 350VT's thoughtful, caring, and dedicated base of volunteers. In this work, she wants to continue to learn how to genuinely center equity, anti-racism, and justice in our organizing spaces; work toward a just transition; and co-create a regenerative world.
Rebecca lives with her family on a hill in Northfield where she tends a rather wild no dig garden, explores the woods whenever possible, and tries to be present for the sweetness/difficulty of parenting.
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Families Rise Up Organizer familiesriseupmontpelier@350vt.org
Hannah grew up in Hartland, VT and now has a home with her family in Plainfield, VT. She is a clinical herbalist, homesteader, and mom. Hannah has cared about climate justice for as long as she can remember, and credits her parents for bringing her to large mobilizations and marches from a young age. She has been involved in activism for over a decade, including direct-action campaigns such as the Tarsands Blockade in TX and anti-fracking in PA, along with community and climate- justice organizing closer to home.Despite the overwhelming fullness of life with two little ones, Hannah believes she is a better organizer since becoming a mom; she is reminded multiple times a day about the importance of humor, compassion and patience, and she has to be efficient with her time, and clear about her priorities. Working toward the world she wants her kids to inherit is top of the list. She is passionate about connecting with other families to find joy and meaning, to build a network of support and community, and to embolden each other toward meaningful action for climate justice and collective liberation.
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Operations Manager admin@350vt.org
Maeve grew up in Barre, VT and has been involved with the climate justice movement here since middle school. Maeve is a recent graduate of Smith College. While there she was a lead member of Divest Smith College, a student-led group that successfully pushed the college to divest from fossil fuels in October 2019. Maeve currently lives in Burlington and plays fiddle, watches ridiculous reality TV, and organizes with Old North End Mutual Aid in her free time. Maeve is excited to continue working towards justice for all with 350VT.
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Community Organizer
connor@350vt.org
Connor has recently graduated from Middlebury College with a major in Environmental Justice. Connor has been part of the climate justice movement since high school, and was involved with Middlebury’s successful divestment campaign, as well as a founding member of Sunrise Middlebury. After a few years as volunteer, intern, and board member for 350VT, he is incredibly excited to join the staff team and further the climate justice movement in Vermont! He currently spends most of his time in Middlebury, VT, where he reads, runs, and cuddles with his cat.
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Community Organizer
Emma (she/her) grew up splitting her time between the Northeast Kingdom (Westmore) and Montpelier, Vermont. While in high school, she was closely involved in local, youth-led climate and social justice efforts. She recently graduated from Barnard College in New York City with a degree in Anthropology-Political Ecology. While in college, she dedicated her time and research to better understanding the intersections of ecological injustice, poverty, and ongoing colonialism in VT and beyond, while also identifying the possibilities for more just futures. Growing up, Emma witnessed the impact of capitalist and colonial systems on the land, water, air, and communities that sustain her in Vermont and globally. This experience continues to motivate her to address climate change by centering justice and building community through all she does. In her free time, she can be found tending to plants, picking up a new hobby, and hanging out with friends. She is thrilled to join the 350VT team and continue working toward climate justice!
Board
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Board Member
Lindsey is a local foods advocate, environmental activist and agritourism enthusiast living in Brandon with her partner, two cats and five chickens. In 2015 Lindsey and her partner Matthew founded Origins of Food, a food justice focused agritourism company, working to reconnect people with where food comes from. Lindsey joined the ACORN Food Network in 2015 as the Marketing and Development Director and now serves as its Executive Director. Lindsey also consults for farms and non-profits, is part of her town’s Restorative Justice group, and a volunteer facilitator for the Good Grief Network.
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Board Member
Una Fonte first became interested in climate organizing at 14 when she went on 350VTs Next Steps Climate Walk. After organizing various climate initiatives at her school, including a sustainable purchasing policy, she worked with 350 Vermont as a summer fellow on sustainable and accessible transportation. Currently, she is studying environmental science and policy at Smith College while continuing environmental and disability justice organizing work on campus. Her work building disabled community with dis-organizing and furthering food justice with the Smith’s Food Rescue Network brings her joy. In her free time, she enjoys hula-hoop dance, theater, and reading.
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Board Treasurer
Alex lives in Burlington with his wonderful wife and two fantastic children. He feels incredibly lucky to be able to commute by bicycle to his job in information technology at the University of Vermont. His perfect weekend includes a pre-dawn hike in Vermont’s mountains. The high point of his climate change activism (thus far) was joining the crowd of 400,000 at the People’s Climate March in 2015, where he dressed up as a displaced penguin.
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Board Member
Harlan Morehouse is a senior lecturer in Geography and Geosciences at the University of Vermont. His research explores the connections among social, political, economic, and environmental systems with a focus on climate justice. Harlan’s primary pathway to justice is through teaching and engaging with younger generations that face increasing challenges associated with a changing world. He teaches with an aim to inspire youth to build better and more equitable futures. He’s excited to broaden this reach by serving on 350 Vermont’s board. Harlan lives in Burlington, Vermont with his family of four and tries, whenever possible, to get away from books and computers and into the woods to be reminded of the subtle details of a world worth fighting for.
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Board Member
Ita is a hot sauce connoisseur and can often be seen traipsing about town talking loudly, in the drama, interrupting hurtful remarks and breaking up fights. They are a founding member of CQ Strategies, which helps organizations become more culturally proficient and equity literate through education, resources, and on-going support.
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Board Member
Sarah became interested in climate organizing at a young age. Overwhelmed by the scale of the universe, the harm being done to our earth, and the systems of oppression that are so embedded in our society— as well as the beauty of every day and the gratitude that deserves, she began organizing in high school. Sarah was a leader in the movement to successfully divest the University of Vermont from fossil fuels in college. She has worked on many local and statewide Progressive campaigns. In her free time, Sarah enjoys painting, cycling, camping, and spending time with her cats.
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Board Co-Chair
Danielle is Technical Designer and Head of Sales for Grassroots Solar, specializing in solar and battery installation for grid-tied and off-grid systems. Her background is in ecosystem restoration biology. After two terms with the Student Conservation Association and AmeriCorps restoring Grand Canyon National Park and Hudson River Estuary flora to reduce impacts, she is using her environmental education and volunteer coordinating skills every day in her solar job and in her climate organizing work. Born in and recently returned to Vermont, she is happy to strengthen her connection to the home that instilled place-based values in her at an early age.
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Board Member
Eva is a Vermont enthusiast who is empowered by the deep community and true climate action brought forth by 350Vermont. Her interests range from neuroscience (which she studied at Middlebury College) to graphic design, and she can talk endlessly about mycelium networks, the positive neurological effects of psychedelics (done safely), different font types, and knitting.
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Board Member
Jessica Van Oort is a writer and editor, and the social media coordinator for the Five Wits Press. She lives in Pawlet, VT, where she is on the Planning Commission and the Selectboard.