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Sierra Club Leader Biographies

Robin Mann, President

Robin Mann was elected Sierra Club President in May, 2010. Mann is a long-time environmentalist who most recently served as the Sierra Club's national vice president for conservation. In that role she served as the lead volunteer overseeing development of the Climate Recovery Partnership.

She has extensive experience in water issues, having chaired the Sierra Club's national water campaigns for several years. Under her direction the Sierra Club helped strengthen protections for wetlands and clean water in the 1990's and early 2000's, fighting back assaults on the Clean Water Act. In her home state of Pennsylvania, Mann led clean water advocacy efforts for more than 20 years, helping securing wetlands protections for the state.

As a grassroots activist, Mann organized community initiatives around environmental cleanups and household hazardous waste collection. She also participated in local open space and comprehensive planning initiatives and served as treasurer and finance committee chair of her local Quaker elementary school.

Mann holds Masters degrees in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Michael Brune, Executive Director

Michael Brune holds degrees in Economics and Finance from West Chester University in Pennsylvania and comes to the Sierra Club from the Rainforest Action Network, where he served seven years as executive director. Under Brune's leadership, Rainforest Action Network has won more than a dozen key environmental commitments from America's largest corporations, including Home Depot, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Kinko's, Boise, and Lowe's.

Brune's critically acclaimed book, Coming Clean -- Breaking America's Addiction to Oil and Coal, published by Sierra Club Books in 2008, details a plan for a new green economy that will create well-paying jobs, promote environmental justice and bolster national security. He and his wife, Mary, attribute their ongoing passion for environmental activism in part to concern that their outdoors-loving children, Olivia and Sebastian, inherit a healthy world. He is particularly interested in promoting programs that link the Club's traditional protection of wild places, including National Parks, to urgently needed climate change solutions.

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