Shana Rappaport

Activist, Artist, Buddhist, Business leader, Business mentor, Care taker, Change agent, Connector, Environmentalist, Event planner, Idea generator, Jewish, Musician, Performer, Potential employer, Technologist

Shana Rappaport is endlessly dedicated to enabling an ecologically thriving, socially just world that works for all Life on Earth. Over the last decade, Shana has helped build and scale VERGE into the leading climate tech event accelerating solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. It is the center of gravity for the climate tech community — convening thousands of leaders from business, government, solution providers and startups — working together to accelerate systemic solutions to the climate crisis while ensuring a just transition. Outside of her work with GreenBiz, Shana is a sought after public speaker, moderator and facilitator around sustainability and systems change. She served as Board Chair for Project Drawdown and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and is a trained leader of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. She also served as Associate Editor of the book, “Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing: Lessons for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals”. Shana previously served as the Director of Education for Bioneers, and as a nationally recognized community leader and organizer during her time as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Southern California.

Re-writing the lyrics to pop-songs about climate solutions.