May Boeve

May Boeve is an American environmental activist. She is a founder and executive director of 350.org, a climate NGO.[1] The Guardian called her "the new face of the climate change movement."[2]

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Boeve on a panel for the Institute for Policy Studies in 2013 alongside Ai-Jen Poo, Jamie Raskin, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Robert Greenstein.

Early activism

Boeve attended Middlebury College, where she became involved with environmental and social justice activism.[1] She helped get Middlebury's administration to commit to going carbon-neutral.[3] Boeve then collaborated with Bill McKibben and others to launch the Step It Up initiative, which has hosted thousands of demonstrations and "organized the first open-source, web-based day of action dedicated to stopping climate change."[3] Boeve was a contributor to the 2007 book "Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community," which was published by Holt.[4]

Involvement at 350.org

Boeve is among relatively few women leaders of large environmental organizations, and was quoted saying "There's a structural sexism problem, full stop."[2] At 350, Boeve has helped organize climate protests and advocated for fossil fuel divestment and a global Green New Deal.[5] In 2011, Boeve was arrested while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House.[6][7]

Under Boeve's direction, 350 increased its staff size beyond its budget, leading to reports of turmoil within the organization and 25 people being laid off.[1]

Recognition

Boeve won a Brower Youth Award in 2006.[8][3] Boeve was profiled as a "Next Generation Leader" by TIME in 2015.[9] She received a New Frontier Award from the John F. Kennedy Library in 2017 and was a finalist for a Pritzker award from the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability in 2019.[7][10][11]

Personal life

Boeve grew up in Sonoma and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.[7][12] She married David Bryson, a consultant, in 2018.[4] Boeve is a direct descendant of William Huntington Russell.[4] She has cited Rebecca Solnit as an influence.[13]

References
  1. "The group that brought down Keystone XL faces agonies of its own". POLITICO. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  2. "May Boeve: the new face of the climate change movement". the Guardian. 2015-04-08. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  3. Shear, Leanne (2009-04-08). "Youth in Action: May Boeve, Climate Change Activist". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  4. "May Boeve, David Bryson". The New York Times. 2018-09-23. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  5. Times, The New York (2019-10-07). "Climate and Energy Experts Debate How to Respond to a Warming World". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  6. "In a Major Victory, Keystone XL Pipeline Canceled". Sierra Club. 2021-06-10. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  7. "May Boeve: How Sonomans can get involved in climate change action". Sonoma Index-Tribune. 2018-02-13. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  8. "May Boeve". Brower Youth Awards. 2006-10-23. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  9. "Meet the Woman Taking on the Fossil-Fuel Industry". Time. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  10. "May Boeve (2017) | JFK Library". www.jfklibrary.org. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  11. Colgan, David (2019-08-20). "2019 Pritzker finalists: May Boeve, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Varshini Prakash". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. "May Boeve (finalist)". Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. 2019-07-15. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  13. "A Conversation about Climate Activism with May Boeve, Executive Director of 350.org". Bioneers. 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
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