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Johanna Zetterberg
Los Angeles County
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Johanna works closely with the Angeles Chapter conservation
volunteer leadership, developing priorities and strategies to meet
the objectives of the Sierra Club on the local level. She splits
her time between the Chapter office and the field — on the ground
in LA County where Sierra Club members are organizing to protect
their environment and communities. Johanna is a resource for local
Sierra Club grassroots campaigns, providing staff support on campaign
planning and stratyegy, coalition and partnership building; media;
public outreach, direct action organizing, event planning, organizational
effectiveness; and other activist skills. She also administers the
Chapter Conservation Grants Program with fellow Conservation Program
Coordinator for Orange County, Rachel Myers, and the Conservation
Grants Committee. Johanna works with organized campaigns and committees
throughout the Angeles Chapter, making sure activists have the resources
they need to create demand for action on conservation issues.
Johanna originally hails from New York City, but is a happy transplant
in the wild, open spaces of the West. She loves to go hiking in
the snow on Mt. Baldy and rock scrambling in Joshua Tree National
Park.
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Rachel Myers
Orange County
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Rachel works closely with the Orange County activists to help them
develop priorities and strategic plans to meet the objectives of
the Sierra Club on the local level. She splits her time between
the Chapter office and the field but is often in Orange County speaking
out at Coastal Commission and City Council meetings or having strategy
planning sessions with Angeles Chapter Task Forces. In Orange County
there are many land use battles that are being fought as well as
poor planning and development for our communities and open spaces.
Sierra Club members are organizing to protect their environment
and communities from bad development often fighting the same developers
and decision makers. Rachel helps facilitate activists to be successful
and influence the decision making process.
Rachel acts as a resource for local Sierra Club grassroots campaigns,
providing staff support on planning, strategy, coalition and partnership
building; media; public outreach, direct action organizing, event
planning, organizational effectiveness; and other activist skills.
Rachel also helps to administer the Chapter Conservation Grants
Program with fellow Conservation Program Coordinator for Los Angeles
County, Johanna Zetterberg, and the Conservation Grants Committee.
Rachel works closely with the Orange County Political Committee
to help bring to the attention of the local public officials the
battles that Sierra Club is fighting. She strives hard to make sure
activists have the resources they need to be successful!
Rachel was born and raised in Palos Verdes, California. After going
to college in Monterey and working for the National Sierra Club
in San Francisco, she is glad to be back in Southern California.
She went to Junior College in Orange County and fell in love with
her husband hiking and camping in the wild places there! She is
very glad to now have the opportunity to help protect some of these
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