Executive Director Michael Brune Factsheet

Title: Executive Director of the Sierra Club, America's oldest, biggest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization.

Age: 40

Family: Michael's wife, Mary, is a mother, technical writer, and cofounder of the group MOMS -- Making Our Milk Safe. The couple lives in Alameda, California with their two children, Olivia, five, and Sebastian, one.

Brune grew up in Chadwick Beach, New Jersey and went to school in nearby Toms River, where his father ran a construction business and served as mayor. His mother, Patricia, taught special needs children in the public schools. He has three siblings. His sister Susan is a research librarian affiliated with Georgetown University. His sister Cathy is a speech therapist in Seattle, and brother James is the executive director of DCARA -- the Deaf Counseling, Advocacy & Referral Agency.

Previous Experience: Brune's first environmental job was as an organizer for Greenpeace. After four years, he joined the Coastal Rainforest Coalition, an organization since renamed ForestEthics. In 1998, Brune joined Rainforest Action Network, where he has served the last seven years as executive director.

Education: Dual B.A.s in Economics and Finance, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, 1993

Publications: Brune is the author of Coming Clean -- Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal (Sierra Club Books, 2008) and blogs regularly for the Huffington Post, SolveClimate, and Daily Kos.

• Executive Director Main
• Michael Brune's Blog
• Q & A
• Mini Biography
• Full Biography
• Factsheet
• Press Release & Photos