Phoebe began her environmental activism by successfully lobbying her elementary school principal to cancel the school’s annual balloon release to protect turtles and other marine life from plastic pollution.
Phoebe is also a former environmental reporter. She also worked on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s 2010 reelection campaign and as the Majority Leader’s speechwriter and communications adviser, as director of speechwriting at progressive think tank Center for American Progress, leading the energy and environment practice at a progressive strategic communications firm, and leading a team of climate communicators fighting the fossil fuel industry as managing director of Campaigns and Strategies at the nonprofit public relations and communications firm Climate Nexus.
Phoebe is the daughter of back-to-the-landers, and grew up in a log cabin in the Maine woods. Today the Magothy River is home, which she shares with her partner, two adorable rescue pups, and a grouchy old cat.
