Earth Island Institute
Sharon Smith
Program Director, New Leaders Initiative
300 Broadway #28
San Francisco, CA 94133
415-788-3666 x144
bya (at) earthisland.org
About us:
Sharon Smith joined Earth Island Institute in February 2007 as Program Director for the New Leaders Initiative and Brower Youth Awards. These programs honor young environmental leaders in the United States and Canada for their outstanding activism and achievements.
Previously, Sharon was a driving force in Rainforest Action Network's national markets campaign victories. She worked extensively with student networks to achieve victories pushing banks out of dirty energy projects and loggers out of old growth forests. In addition, Sharon led youth on extended wilderness backpacking and cross-country bike touring trips in the United States. She launched her career in environmental advocacy in 1999 with a year-long fellowship with Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing. Sharon graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1999 with dual degrees in Conservation and Resource Studies and Anthropology, and spent a year in the tropics studying medical anthropology and tropical forest ecology and conservation.
