May Boeve is an American environmental activist. She is a founder and executive director of 350.org, a climate NGO. [1] [2] [3] The Guardian called her "the new face of the climate change movement." [4]
May Boeve is an American environmental activist. She is a founder and executive director of 350.org, a climate NGO. [1] [2] [3] The Guardian called her "the new face of the climate change movement." [4]
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. [5] 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." [5] 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. [6]
Boeve founded 350.org in 2008 alongside Bill McKibben. [7]
Boeve is among relatively few women leaders of large environmental organizations, and was quoted saying "There's a structural sexism problem, full stop." [4] At 350, Boeve has helped organize climate protests and advocated for fossil fuel divestment and a global Green New Deal. [8] [3] In 2011, Boeve was arrested while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House. [9] [10]
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]
Boeve won a Brower Youth Award in 2006. [11] [5] Boeve was profiled as a "Next Generation Leader" by TIME in 2015. [12] 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. [10] [13] [14]
Boeve grew up in Sonoma and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. [10] [15] She married David Bryson, a consultant, in 2018. [6] Boeve is a direct descendant of William Huntington Russell. [6] She has cited Rebecca Solnit as an influence. [16]
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