Shana Rappaport
United States
Resilience
Steward
Senior leader whose life and career are dedicated to accelerating solutions for climate progress and ensuring a just transition to a clean economy. As the former Executive Director of VERGE over the last 12 years, Shana helped build and scale VERGE into the leading climate tech event accelerating solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. VERGE 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 and ensure a just transition to a clean economy. 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.
Shana Rappaport
United States
Resilience
Steward
Senior leader whose life and career are dedicated to accelerating solutions for climate progress and ensuring a just transition to a clean economy. As the former Executive Director of VERGE over the last 12 years, Shana helped build and scale VERGE into the leading climate tech event accelerating solutions to the most pressing challenges of our time. VERGE 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 and ensure a just transition to a clean economy. 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.