Maggie L. Fox

CEO, Climate Protection Action Fund

Maggie L. Fox is a veteran of numerous national issues, political and environmental campaigns and has spent 30 years working to mobilize Americans to take action.

Maggie is past National President of America Votes, a progressive coalition of over 40 organizations spearheading the largest voter mobilization and education effort in the nation. America Votes and its national partner organizations worked in 12 targeted states in 2006 to raise awareness and to engage and mobilize voters on a broad range of issues including the economy, health care, the environment, and education. America Votes leads the coordinated GOTV efforts of all of the nation’s leading progressive organizations.

Previously, Maggie served as the Deputy Executive Director of the Sierra Club, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots environmental advocacy organization. With many years of federal and state policy and electoral experience, Maggie provided strategic oversight and leadership to the Sierra Club, one of the nation’s most respected and effective institutions, according to the Aspen Institute. Maggie oversaw the start of the Sierra Club’s decadal strategic shift to focus primarily on building environmental community, and led numerous federal, state and regional policy efforts on climate change, energy policy, western public lands and water, Native American natural resource issues and agricultural reform in her 20 years with the Sierra Club.

Most recently, Maggie has consulted with a number of organizations on their energy and climate campaigns including the Energy Future Coalition, Western Resource Advocates, and the Ocean Conservancy.

Maggie began her career as a teacher and community organizer on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations of Arizona and New Mexico and worked for the Colorado, North Carolina and Northwest Outward Bound Schools for over a decade. She earned her B.A. from the University of North Carolina, a Masters in Education from the University of Colorado, and a J.D. with an emphasis in Environmental Law and Native America Natural Resources Law from Northwestern School of Law.

Maggie lives in Eldorado Canyon, Colorado with her husband and two children.