About us
Green Change is a community of people with Green values: justice, democracy, sustainability and non-violence. We work together to share Green art, politics and culture.
We have many different skills and talents. Some can write, or draw, or paint. Others take photographs, register voters, or do street theater. We encourage people to use their talents to make the world a better place. Anyone with Green values is welcome to join us.
Green Change provides tools for sharing and expressing Green knowledge and inspiration. We help Green writers, musicians and artists spread the word about their work. We help people come together to take Green political action. We provide information and articles for people who want to learn more about what it is to be Green, live Green and act Green. Soon, we will make it easier to meet others like you, so that together you can build new Green communities, and help one another.
We believe there is power in working together. We have built the Green Change website to help people to create together, to solve problems, and to build a culture based on Green values.
We believe there are a million ways (or more) to advance Green art and causes. This website is intended to help you and your friends let a thousand flowers bloom.
Green Change is established under section 527 of the U.S. tax code.
Executive director
Marnie Glickman is an experienced Green political operative and fundraiser. She is also an attorney.
She worked for Commercial Alert, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting communities from commercialism from 2003 to 2007. In 2003-4, she served as the co-chair of the Green Party of the United States. Marnie has worked on the campaigns of Joe Keating for Governor (OR, 2006), Cobb-LaMarche presidential campaign (2004), Ralph Nader for President (2000), Carl Mayer for Congress (NJ, 2000), Nita Lowey for Congress (NY, 1998), Tom Bruggere for US Senate (OR, 1996), Darlene Hooley for Congress (OR, 1997), Nancy Kaszak for Congress (IL, 1995-6), Eliabeth Furse for Congress (OR, 1994-5), Clinton-Gore (1992) and Tom Harkin for President (1992). In 1998, she was the deputy director for major gifts and a trainer at EMILY's List. Her first job in politics was working for Senator Paul Wellstone (DC and MN, 1991).
Marnie lives in Fairfax, California with her husband, Gary Ruskin, and daughter, Calliope.
Board of directors
Matt Gonzalez is an attorney in San Francisco, California. From 1991-2000, Matt was a trial lawyer at the Office of the San Francisco Public Defender. In 2000, he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first member of the Green Party to win elective office in San Francisco. Two years later, Matt was elected by his colleagues to serve as president of the 11-member body.
Sam Smith is a co-founder of the United States Green Party and the DC Statehood Green Party. He is editor and publisher of the Progressive Review. He is the author of Why Bother? Getting a Life in a Locked-Down Land; Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual; Shadows of Hope: A Practitioner's Guide to Politics in the Age of Clinton; and Captive Capital: Colonial Life in Modern Washington.
John Rensenbrink is a co-founder of the United States Green Party and the Maine Green Independent Party. He is the editor of Green Horizon Quarterly and author of Against All Odds: the Green Transformation of American Politics.
