1Sky Staff | 1Sky Board of Directors | Consultants

The 1Sky campaign is be led by a team of seasoned professionals with a combined century of experience in organizing, communications and energy-related work. Listed below are just a few of the many consultants and volunteers around the country who are working closely with us to make 1Sky a success!

Biro Creative is one of North America's most exciting new progressive communication firms, offering a full range of values-based marketing services — from branding and campaign strategy to print and web design to animation and the latest interactive technology. Based in Vancouver, B.C., our tight-knit team came together in late 2005, after more than three years heading the Adbusters Media Foundation’s campaigns, design and web departments. Working with like-minded organizations—progressive businesses, non-profits, charities, and political parties--we focus our energy on one simple goal: making change irresistible. For more, visit www.birocreative.com

Parker Blackman, Fenton Communications, has been working in public-interest communications, advocacy and organizational development for 15 years. He has served as lead communication strategist on branding, positioning, communications planning and media relations strategy for a range of environmental clients, including Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment and Sustainability, National Environmental Trust, and Patagonia. Blackman formerly served as press secretary for Arianna Huffington’s run for governor of California and as a communications advisor for Robert Kennedy Jr. He was the lead communications strategist on two high-profile national campaigns that have helped reshape and revitalize the debate on fuel efficiency and global warming, the Evangelical Environmental Network’s “What Would Jesus Drive?” campaign and Huffington’s “Detroit Project.” As the former executive director of Washington Public Interest Research Group, he led a campaign that successfully blocked the construction of a major oil pipeline in Washington and created new accident prevention and enforcement standards for all existing pipelines in the state. He is the former director of the PIRG National Fellowship Program and opened PIRG’s first Intermountain West field office serving the Western United States. www.fenton.com

EchoDitto is a leading strategic online communications and technology firm dedicated to building vibrant communities online and empowering people through the creative use of emerging technologies. EchoDitto works with its clients to leverage social media and connected technologies as a vehicle for affecting positive social and environmental change around the world. Growing out of the Howard Dean presidential campaign, our specialties include online communications, online organizing, new media training, and interactive web development. Recent work includes exciting projects with the William J. Clinton Foundation, Seventh Generation, Rosie O'Donnell, and Al Gore's new Alliance for Climate Protection. For more, visit www.echoditto.com.

Maggie L. Fox is the recent past National President of America Votes, a progressive coalition of 36 organizations spearheading the largest voter mobilization and education effort in the nation. America Votes’ and its national partner organizations worked in 9 targeted states in 2006 to raise awareness, engage and mobilize voters on a broad range of issues including the economy, health care, security, political corruption, the environment, education and civil and human rights. 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 election experience, Maggie provided strategic oversight to the Sierra Club’s Political Program, one of the nation’s most respected and effective institutions in electoral politics, according to the Aspen Institute. Additionally, Maggie oversaw the start of the Sierra Club’s decadal strategic shift to focus primarily on building environmental community, as well as led numerous federal, state and regional policy efforts on global warming, energy policy, western public lands and water, Native American natural resource issues and agricultural reform in her 20 years with the Club. Maggie earned her B.A. from the University of North Carolina, a Masters in Education from the University of Colorado, and a law degree with an emphasis in Native American and Environmental Law from Northwestern School of Law. Maggie has served as a Board member of the Apollo Alliance and the Center for a Sustainable Economy in Washington, DC, the Natural Resources Law Center of the University of Colorado School of Law, Thorne Ecological Institute, Western Resource Advocates, and the State of Change. Maggie currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Foundation of Colorado, the Green Fund, Western Progress, the Wirth Chair in Environment and Community Development at the University of Colorado, and the Energy Future Coalition in Washington, DC. Maggie lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and two children.

Robert Gass has been known for leading edge work in human consciousness and organizational change for over 30 years. Holding a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Organizational Development from Harvard, his work synthesizes a diverse background in humanistic psychology, organizational behavior, social change, business, music and spiritual studies. Robert was the former President of ARC International, a global consulting company specializing in transformational change with Fortune 500companies. As an organizational consultant, he has worked at the most senior levels with corporations such as General Motors, Chase Bank, and Motorola. Robert has for many years served as executive coach to well-known business, non-profit, political and spiritual leaders. Co-creator of the Opening the Heart workshops, Robert has offered seminars to over 100,000 individuals on leadership, relationships (with his wife, Judith) and spirituality at centers around the world including the Conference Board, the American Academy of Psychotherapy, the Institute of Cultural Affairs (China), Omega Institute, Brown University, Auroville (India), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.N. Peace University in Costa Rica. Also a highly-regarded composer, performer and recording artist, Robert has released over 20 CDs of chant with sales of over 700,000 units, and is author of Chanting: Discovering Spirit in Sound, published by Broadway Books. Robert's current work focuses on leadership development and movement building for progressive social change. Designer of the Rockwood Art of Leadership trainings, he has trained environmental, human rights, peace and social justice leaders across North America, in the inner and outer arts of leadership. Robert was the former Board Chair of Greenpeace USA, and currently consults to activist groups such as the Tides Foundation, Rainforest Action Network, the Democracy Alliance, Friends of the Earth, and MoveOn.org.

Rob Gustafson has over two decades of experience developing and implementing advocacy and education programs to impact the policymaking process in Washington, DC. Mr. Gustafson has broad-based government relations and lobbying experience with a particular emphasis on environmental and international issues, human rights, and appropriations. He served on Capitol Hill for eight years, including as Associate Staff to the House Appropriations Committee and as Chief of Staff to a senior Member of the House Appropriations Committee. After working for Congress, Mr. Gustafson served as Government Relations Director at Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn PLLC, a major Washington, DC-based law firm with a nationally-recognized government relations practice, and Vice President for Government Relations at Fleishman-Hillard, one of the largest public relations and lobbying forms in the world. In addition to his activities in Washington, DC, he has traveled widely and worked on-site in Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Mr. Gustafson, a native of Illinois, is a graduate, with honors, of Harvard University and served as captain of the university track and field team. He and his wife and sons live in Virginia.

Sarah Jaynes is a consultant currently serving as the Executive Director of Washington Progress Alliance. This alliance of progressive donors invests collectively to build a more effective, coordinated movement for a better future in WA and beyond. Sarah was trained as an organizer with Green Corps, and spent the last 15 years as an organizer and campaigner for a healthy environment and good jobs. Most recently, Sarah was the campaign director for Climate Solutions, the director of Seattle Alliance for Good Jobs and Housing for Everyone (SAGE), and the political and field director of the WA Conservation Voters.