Ellie Johnston
Climate Interactive
Ellie coordinates many of Climate Interactive’s community engagement efforts. With years of experience organizing student and youth advocacy efforts to address climate change from local to international levels, Ellie has given hundreds the resources to get involved and make a difference.
Ellie is founder and former Director of the Lead Now Fellowship at SustainUS, which focuses on developing youth-led sustainability initiatives. Ellie was also the Chair of SustainUS, a national organization to empower young people to advance sustainable development. She has attended and spoken at several UN negotiations on climate change and sustainability, as well as many other conferences and events. Ellie was a project coordinator on the ten-volume Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability and has advised campaign and operations planning for the Southern Energy Network, 350 Massachusetts, and Energy Action Coalition, among others. In all of these roles she has worked to facilitate greater clarity around how to act on the world’s present and future challenges.
Ellie studied biology at the University of North Carolina Asheville and lives in the southern Berkshires of Massachusetts.