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Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for more than 35 years, helping to build global coalitions and networks to address health impacts related to climate change and toxic chemical exposure. Cohen is co-founder and president of Health Care Without Harm, created in 1996 to help transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and support the health and climate resilience of communities. Since its inception, the nonprofit has grown to lead and partner on groundbreaking initiatives in more than 72 countries. Cohen was awarded the Champion of Change… Read More
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Kate's background is in public health, wellness, and health care sustainability. She believes that for people to thrive, they need a healthy environment to support positive behavior change. She is passionate about helping partners persevere on their sustainability journey. On the partnership engagement team, Kate manages California and other regional facilities. Kate was born and raised in the Olympic National Park and resides in central Washington. She enjoys experimenting with plant-based recipes, exploring the outdoors, and chasing her son.
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Kimberly Dasher Tripp is founder and principal of Strategy for Scale, where she advises high-impact organizations and private foundations. She partners with new and established philanthropists to build clear, impact-oriented strategies and processes to accelerate systems change. With social enterprises, she works on issues related to the nuanced art of scaling impact: strategic plans that drive measurable outcomes and can be operationalized; governance; leadership and talent; development strategy and growth plans; and impact measurement. She also conducts research and writes about… Read More
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Tory Dietel Hopps manages portfolios for clients with both domestic and international interest as managing partner at Dietel Partners. She works closely with her team to define strategy, identify grantee and funding partners, and assist grantees with their strategies, resource development, and capacity-building needs. She works closely with funding partners to help with field building in areas of interest to her clients. She believes strongly in working toward better dynamics between the funding and grantseeking communities and takes a humanist approach to her work. Before joining Dietel… Read More
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Laurence W. Cohen is founder, partner, and CEO of Seven Bridges Advisors. Before founding Seven Bridges, Cohen worked as a managing partner at Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz and as a tax lawyer at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy, as well as at Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge. He served as a clerk for John Garrett Penn, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He served as chairman of the Brown University investment committee from 2009 to 2015 and vice-chairman from 2015 to 2019, and as a trustee of the Brown University Corporation and a member of its executive committee. He… Read More
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David Mazumder is an M.D.–Ph.D. dual-degree candidate at Harvard Medical School and a leader in the student health professional movement for a sustainable future. He is a founding board member and treasurer of Future Doctors in Politics, Inc., a nonprofit educating and empowering medical students to advocate for their patients and communities and for systemic changes to address the social determinants of health. He served as a 2021 advocacy co-chair for Medical Students for a Sustainable Future (MS4SF), a national network of students working to prepare health professionals for careers shaped… Read More
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Gary Cohen has been a pioneer in the environmental health movement for thirty years. He is Co-Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth. He was also instrumental in bringing together the NGOs and hospital systems that formed the Healthier Hospitals Initiative. All three were created to transform the health care sector to be environmentally sustainable and serve as anchor institutions to support environmental health in their communities.
Cohen is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, India. He is also on the Boards of… Read More
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Sarah brings over a decade of strategic program and project management experience across many sectors including health care. She was instrumental in engaging leadership through a Green+Leaders program at Vancouver Coastal Health (a current Practice Greenhealth partner) and other Canadian health authorities as a sustainability consultant. Sarah is based in the Vancouver, British Columbia, area and enjoys paddle boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter, and chasing after her young son and beagle pup.
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Chelsea is responsible for our data and metrics deliverables, maintaining our data platforms, and awards benchmarking. With nine years of experience in the health care field, they previously served as sustainability coordinator for UT Southwestern Medical Center and as management engineer for Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas, focusing on process improvement, data analysis, and related areas. They live in Dallas with their partner Victoria and dog Gracie, and love traveling, hiking, listening to audiobooks while walking Gracie, and riding their e-bike all over town.
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Tim comes to us from Climate XChange, where he led their in-state team and local policy work as the Massachusetts state director, led the Green Future Now coalition, and authored the Green Future Act. He also worked as a policy manager for the Climate Action Business Association, a business round table that organized the private sector on clean energy and climate resilience. Tim enjoys exploring local bookstores and state parks with his partner. He can be regularly found volunteering for something in his hometown of Weymouth or being meowed at by his cat.
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