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Get to know the people working to boldly build Maine's climate movement.
MCAN STAFF
BOB SUMMERS
(he/him) Administrative Manager
Bob has worked with nonprofits in Maine for over 25 years, including in affordable housing development, technology, and social services. Since 2006, he has written about impact investing, including to document the results of lending to micro businesses in lower income countries. He has lived in Peru and traveled in many other parts of the world. When he’s in Maine, you often can find him trying to figure out a use for things that “normal” people throw away.
ISABELLE ROGERS
(any pronouns) Communications Co-Coordinator
(newsletter/website)
Isabelle is an artist, musician and activist from Western Maine. She uses art as a medium for positive change through her award-winning short films and original music from her band Sagittarius Rising. Isabelle believes that art is a powerful way to ignite positive change in the world.
EZRA SASSAMAN
(he/him) Advocacy Coordinator
Before MCAN Ezra worked at Maine Youth for Climate Justice (MYCJ), which drove home the important connection between climate and social justice. Ezra recognizes protecting the climate must also mean challenging and overcoming unjust and unsustainable hierarchies such as colonization and capitalism. At MYCJ, Ezra supported tribal sovereignty legislation, offshore wind education and legislation, MainePERS divestment implementation, the Pine Tree Amendment, a consumer-owned utility in Maine, funding climate education in public schools, and tracking Maine Public Utilities Commission dockets.
At MCAN, he is excited to continue much of this work and strive towards further climate justice goals and new alliances. Ezra also serves on Sierra Club Maine’s Executive Committee and Bar Harbor’s Climate Emergency Task Force. He believes it is past time for everyday people to take back the power that has been concentrated for far too long in the hands of the few. We know the status quo is not working, so let’s be uncompromising and bold about the future we know we can create!
MICHELLE FOURNIER
(she/her) Program Coordinator
Michelle began her climate activism journey 10 years ago, joining the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline. She was a full-time climate organizer for over half that time and worked at local and national levels. Michelle now teaches part-time at Maine Local Living School and is working to start a small land-based intentional community in Maine, which she sees as different forms of activism for climate justice. She lives in Bristol and enjoys recreating outdoors, foraging for wild food and medicine, and getting to know her human and non-human neighbors.
AMY ESHOO
(she/her) Director of Maine Climate Action Now
Amy was the Program Director for 350 Maine before taking the lead at MCAN. Prior to moving to Maine she was a practicing artist and art educator in London and New York. Her favorite things about her home in North Yarmouth are the quiet and the dark night sky. Lately she has taken to ‘coldwater dipping’ in the ocean with fellow mermaids.