Sylvia Broude

Sylvia is a non-profit leader, community organizer, and strategist committed to building multi-racial and cross-class movements for change. She has spent two decades training community organizers and supporting frontline communities as they work to build people power and win against extractive corporations. She has helped community groups win local votes, built and coordinated coalitions that secured victories through legislative and issue advocacy, managed electoral campaigns, and designed winning corporate campaigns.

For 16 years, Sylvia led a Northeast U.S.-based non-profit that organizes with communities facing climate and environmental injustice. During a decade as Executive Director, she helped grassroots groups win more than 100 victories for clean air and water, from retiring coal-fired power plants, to halting new fracked gas pipelines, to closing and preventing polluting landfills and incinerators, to securing clean drinking water for thousands of families. Throughout, she joined communities together to organize for state, regional and national policy changes that advance solutions to the most profound climate and environmental crises we face, led by the people with the most at stake. Along the way, she nearly tripled the budget and stewarded the organization through major change initiatives, from a rebrand and name change to organizational culture shift.

Sylvia brings a passion for strategy and grassroots fundraising, a deep love of people, and an abiding belief that a better world is possible. She has a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, and she is the 2018 recipient of The John Merck Fund Sparkplug Award, also known as the Frank Hatch Award for Enlightened Public Service.