Join us Thursday, October 20th at 5pm PT/8pm ET

Challenge Corporate Power Virtual Rally

With less than 8 years to address the worst of climate change and the looming biodiversity crisis worsening every day, you can be sure that RAN will not back down from the fight for a just and sustainable future.

Register for the Virtual Rally

You’ll hear directly from our Executive Director, Ginger Cassady, as we celebrate our achievements together. We’ll look ahead as we strengthen our campaigns, putting more pressure on the corporations and banks pumping billions into the most destructive industries: fossil fuels and forest-risk commodities. All while making record breaking profits, year after year.

We’re excited to report back directly to you from our direct actions this year against brands like Procter & Gamble and to showcase the impact from the work you make possible! And at the end, find out what you can do to help us escalate the fight against the biggest banks, brands, and insurance companies in the world.

SPEAKERS

Ginger Cassady, Executive Director

Ginger Cassady is the Executive Director of Rainforest Action Network. She has over 20 years of experience securing transformational change with some of the world’s largest corporations and financiers through global campaigns and litigation to protect the environment and uphold human rights. She has spent her career working at the intersection of ecological and social justice issues, with a strong track record of combining strategic thinking and grassroots organizing with effective organizational management and fundraising to achieve high impact results.

 

Daniel Carrillo, Forest Campaign Director

Daniel comes to RAN with over 15 years of experience organizing and campaigning in the social justice movement. They won corporate campaigns and successfully negotiated contracts at SEIU, AFSCME, and CWA in the US and with independent unions in Mexico. Daniel co-founded the Prison Divestment Campaign which successfully pressured union pensions, universities, and cities to divest over $6 billion from the prison industry. Daniel also co-founded Stop LAPD Spying, the New York Worker Center Federation, and Freedom Cities.

 

Sarmishta Govindhan, NYC Organizer

Sarmishta’s work focuses on action planning and base building in New York City for both the Climate and Tropical Forest programs. Sarmishta came to RAN as a student and alumni organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops, a bilingual rapid-response volunteer with Immigrant Families Together, and then as the New York City Youth Climate Strikes Communications organizer with 350.org during the 2019 Global Climate Strikes.

 

Fitri Arianti, Senior Forest Campaigner

Fitri is a Jakarta native and partially grew up in California. She works with RAN’s network of grassroots partners in Indonesia to profile the social impacts of the palm oil industry, build joint strategies and hold corporate offenders accountable. Fitri naturally plays the role of an ad-hoc cultural translator and has a background in Development Studies.

 

Ethan Nuss, Senior Organizing Strategist

Ethan brings over 15 years of experience in climate and environmental justice organizing. He helped build the youth climate movement as the Field Director of Energy Action Coalition, worked in Texas with the Tar Sands Blockade direct action campaign, and with frontline communities on Houston’s East End with Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (TEJAS).