Patti Miller oversees Too Small to Fail, the early childhood education initiative of the Clinton Foundation and its public awareness and action campaign to promote the importance of early brain and language development and support parents with tools to talk, read and sing with their young children starting at birth. Prior to joining the Foundation, Patti served as Vice President of Public Policy at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit producer of “Sesame Street.” Patti also previously served as Vice President of the Children and the Media Program at Children Now, a national child advocacy organization. In that role, she led a broad coalition in advocacy and policy efforts to improve the media environment for children. Patti holds a master’s in education from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from the University of California at Berkeley. 

Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent over five decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, First Lady, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, and presidential candidate. As 67th U.S. Secretary of State, her “smart power” approach to foreign policy repositioned American diplomacy and development for the 21st century. Clinton played a central role in restoring America’s standing in the world, reasserting the United States as a Pacific power, imposing crippling sanctions on Iran and North Korea, responding to the Arab Awakening, and negotiating a ceasefire in the Middle East. Earlier, as First Lady and Senator for New York, she traveled to more than 80 countries as a champion of human rights, democracy, and opportunities for women and girls. She also worked to provide health care to millions of children, create jobs and opportunity, and support first responders who risked their lives at Ground Zero. In her historic 2016 campaign for President of the United States, Clinton won 66 million votes. She is the author of ten best-selling books, host of the podcast You and Me Both, founder of the global production studio HiddenLight Productions, Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast, and a Professor of Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs and Presidential Fellow at Columbia World Projects at Columbia University. She is married to former U.S. President Bill Clinton, has one daughter Chelsea, and three grandchildren: Charlotte, Aidan, and Jasper. 

Scott Z. Burns is an award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright. He is the writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations which won an Environmental Media Association Award as well as a Sentinel Award and stars Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker, Edward Norton and Marion Cotillard among others. In film, Burns’ writing credits include The Bourne Ultimatum as well as The Informant!, Contagion, Side Effects, and The Laundromat for director Steven Soderbergh. As a director, Burns’ credits include Pu-239 starring Oscar Isaac and Paddy Considine and The Report starring Adam Driver and Annette Bening. Burns served as a producer for the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth for which he received the Humanitas Prize, as well as an executive producer of An Inconvenient Sequel and Sea of Shadows which won the Sundance Audience Award. On stage, Burns’ play The Library was produced at The Public Theater and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for best new American play. 

Burns is a frequent advisor at the Sundance Institute and a member of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Leadership Committee. He attended the University of Minnesota where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in English Literature. Burns began his career in advertising where he was part of the team that created the ‘Got Milk?’ campaign for which he apologizes to lactose intolerant people everywhere. 

Ai-jen Poo is a next-generation labor leader, award-winning organizer, author, and a leading voice in the women’s movement. She is the president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, executive director of Caring Across Generations and a trustee of the Ford Foundation. She recently served as a commissioner on President Biden’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. 

Poo is a nationally recognized expert on the care economy and is the author of the celebrated book The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. She has been recognized among Fortune’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders and Time’s 100 Most Influential People, and received a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a “Genius Grant.” Most recently, she received the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award from the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School.   

 Poo has been a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Milken Institute Global Conference, TEDWomen, and the Skoll World Forum. She has made appearances on PBS, Nightline, MSNBC and CBS; and has been a guest on popular podcasts such as On Being with Krista Tippett, We Can Do Hard Things and The Ezra Klein Show. Poo earned a B.A. in women’s and gender studies at Columbia University and holds honorary degrees from CUNY and The New School. 

Elizabeth Yee is the Executive Vice President of Programs. She oversees The Foundation’s portfolio of global programs, regional offices and learning and impact team, and leads the advancement of the Foundation’s strategic priorities. She is the former Chief of Staff and joined The Foundation in 2019 as the Managing Director of Climate and Resilience. 

From 2015-2019, Liz held various executive leadership roles at 100 Resilient Cities, a sponsored project of The Foundation, where she led the development of strategic partnerships and collaborated with member cities and investors to develop and mobilize financial solutions. 

Before joining 100 Resilient Cities, Liz co-led the Public Power and Utilities practice at Barclays Capital. During her seventeen years in financial services at Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, Liz originated, developed, structured and executed over $30 billion of infrastructure, energy, commodities and derivative transactions. She and her team were two time “Bond Buyer Deal of the Year” recipients for their innovative approaches to renewable energy finance. 

She was appointed to SEforALL’s Board, which aims to accelerate and deliver the solutions needed to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 – access to affordable and clean energy by 2030, serves on the Investment Committee for the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet as well as the Advisory Boards for Co-Impact’s Foundational Fund and Gender Advisory Boards. She co-chairs the Climate Coalition for Lower Manhattan and is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Liz is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. 

Bill Weir is a veteran anchor, writer, producer, and host who came to CNN in 2013 after a decade of award-winning journalism at ABC News.   

In 2019, he was named the network’s first Chief Climate Correspondent, drawing on his experience creating and hosting the primetime CNN Original Series “The Wonder List with Bill Weir,” now streaming on Max. 

With his distinctive storytelling style, lush photography and a focus on our connected planet, Weir and his team produced four seasons of the show across 28 countries, highlighting wondrous people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of seismic change.  

In 2022, Weir earned a News & Documentary® Emmy Award for his CNN Special Report: Eating Planet Earth: The Future of Your Food and the Columbia Journalism Review called his 2020 CNN Special Report: The Road to Change “one of the very best pieces of climate journalism ever run by a mainstream US news organization.” His first book, “Life As We Know It (Can Be)” will be published by Chronicle Prism in April 2024.  

In his network career, Weir reported from 50 states and more than 50 countries, covering breaking news and uncovering global trends. He was among the first reporters into the floodwaters of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and Japan’s tsunami zone during the nuclear crisis of 2011. He dodged Taliban bullets in Afghanistan, led network coverage from Iraq and was the first American to broadcast live from Tibet. As a writer and anchor, Weir produced several special hours for CNN and ABC prime time on topics ranging from religion, brain science and Woodstock to the business of mail-order brides and the rise and fall of General Motors

His live shots have come from atop the Golden Gate Bridge and below the waters of the Great Barrier Reef while his adventure reporting includes jumps from hot air balloons, hikes deep into the Amazon and one fun night spent lashed to the side of Yosemite’s El Capitan. 

Before joining ABC News, Weir wrote and hosted projects for the FX and USA Networks and was an anchor/reporter in Los Angeles, Chicago, Green Bay and Austin, MN. 

Bridgit Antoinette Evans is an award-winning artist, philanthropy executive, and thought leader in the narrative change field, pioneering the use of pop culture strategies and narrative systems methodology to advance social justice. She has dedicated her career to the relentless investigation of the potential of artists and stories to drive change in society. Fifteen years of work at the intersection of mass audience storytelling and social justice has evolved into a vision for a new, hybrid culture change field in which creative and social justice leaders work together to popularize stories and other immersive experiences that build widespread public yearning for a pluralist culture in which everyone belongs. Through Fuel I We Power Change, the creative and strategic consultancy she founded in 2008, Bridgit has designed and tested long-term culture change strategies in partnership with many of the nation’s leading movement organizations, including the Save Darfur Coalition, Girls Are Not For Sale Campaign, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Caring Across Generations, ACLU, and the Make It Work Campaign. Bridgit was named a Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow in 2015, piloting “Culture Changes Us,” a coordinated learning system that measurably accelerated a rising generation of social justice leaders’ understanding and use of culture change strategy. For Unbound Philanthropy and Ford Foundation, she led multi-year narrative research and strategy design projects aimed at unearthing breakthrough storytelling and engagement strategies for the immigrant rights and gender justice movements, respectively. Bridgit has been invited to travel around the world to speak about her vision and groundbreaking narrative systems methodologies; and since 2017, has served as CEO of the Pop Culture Collaborative, a philanthropic resource and funder learning community working to transform the narrative landscape around people of color, immigrants, refugees, Muslims, and indigenous peoples in America, especially those who are women, queer, trans, and/or disabled. 

Heather Fipps is the Co-Founder of the Hollywood Climate Summit, an annual conference for multi-sector media professionals to level up their climate knowledge, deepen intersectional values, and lead a cultural movement of sustained climate action in partnership with The Television Academy, The Motion Picture Academy, Netflix, NBCUniversal and more. As Senior Program Director at The Redford Center, she cultivates opportunities and resources for environmental filmmakers and produces narrative change campaigns. As a Professor of Media and Social Impact at California State University Los Angeles, she founded a service-learning program that trained filmmakers and social impact organizations to produce over 100 community-led video campaigns. As the Head of Production at the studio of Mark Bradford, her social impact film work was recognized by the Global Campus of Human Rights. Heather has a decade of experience working on multi-platform content and campaigns for Netflix, BBC, Hulu, CBS, PBS, Deaf West, California Air Emissions Board, The League of Conservation Voters, and the US Dept. of Health. 

Having joined NRDC as chief science officer in February 2023, Dr. Ticora V. Jones is leading the efforts to expand the vision for science and the Science Office at NRDC to support the scientific and evidence-based nucleus for organizational strategy and advocacy. 

Dr. Jones served nearly 15 years at USAID (United States Agency for International Development) in a number of roles, including most recently as agency chief scientist, executive director for innovation, technology & research, and managing director for research. 

As agency chief scientist, Jones chaired the Research and Development Council, which was responsible for revising and instituting science policy; advocated for process changes to better support scientific integrity and research generation and use; and led efforts to expand USAID’s interagency role in international science and technology cooperation for deeper strategic partnerships with the U.S. government. This included renewing USAID’s agreement with NASA to strengthen collaborations for addressing the climate crisis, food insecurity, and other humanitarian challenges. She also regularly hosted outreach and engagement sessions to bring together technical communities to highlight emerging technology and policy priorities for mutual benefit. 

Through her time as the managing director for research, Dr. Jones created research and development programs for the agency that built bridges between development professionals and researchers, advancing a multidisciplinary lens on science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This included establishing the Higher Education Solutions Network, a collaboration of development labs that included seven universities and more than 600 partners building scientific, technical, innovation, entrepreneurial, and other connections to increase the impact on international development and transform donor-academia relationships. 

Prior to joining USAID, Dr. Jones served as a Materials Research Society Congressional Fellow for former Wisconsin senator Russell D. Feingold, where she worked on energy and environment issues. 

Dr. Jones brings together her science and management expertise to support NRDC’s Science Office as it expands, and will leverage her technical and management expertise and diverse skills in strategy development, legislative affairs, budget formulation, and operations, specific to the integration of science, technology, innovation, and partnership for enhanced social value. 

A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dr. Jones is based in the Washington, D.C. office. 

Sabrina McCormick is social scientist, entrepreneur, and filmmaker dedicated to addressing the climate crisis. She has studied human aspects of climate from health effects of heat to climate lawsuits, with over fifty publications and two books, in such venues as Science and Nature journals. Dr. McCormick has been producer on an Emmy Award-winning climate documentary, and writer, producer, and director of fiction films like SEQUESTRADA and BURNOUT. Dr. McCormick has also spearheaded some of the largest studies on the impact of climate media to ensure the right stories are being told for intended impact. She is founder of Resilience Creative, a venture dedicated to producing poignant and compelling stories that lead to quantifiable positive action on climate. 
 
Sabrina has led other successful startups that used science to protect human health, including Pandemic Proof Productions, which offered protection for high-profile projects such as AMSTERDAM and RUSSIAN DOLL, and Aclara Advanced Materials, an innovative anti-viral materials company. Dr. McCormick was a Lead Author for the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special assessment on extreme weather events. She has worked with and her research has been supported by organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and various institutions and philanthropists. Sabrina holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, and a Ph.D. from Brown University. She is formerly tenured professor at George Washington University and Senior Fellow at the Wharton Risk & Decision Center at the University of Pennsylvania, amongst other roles. 

As vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, Chelsea Clinton works alongside the Foundation’s leadership and partners to improve lives and inspire emerging leaders across the United States and around the world. This includes the Foundation’s early child initiative Too Small to Fail, which supports families with the resources they need to promote early brain and language development; and the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), a global program that empowers student leaders to turn their ideas into action. A longtime public health advocate, Chelsea also serves as vice chair of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and uses her platform to increase awareness around issues such as vaccine hesitancy, childhood obesity, and health equity.   

In addition to her Foundation work, Chelsea teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and has written several books for young readers, including the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World as well as She Persisted Around the World, She Persisted in Sports, She Persisted in Science, Start Now! You Can Make a Difference; Don’t Let Them Disappear; It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going; and Welcome to the Big Kids Club. She is also the co-author of The Book of Gutsy Women and Grandma’s Gardens with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and of Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? with Devi Sridhar. Chelsea’s podcast, In Fact with Chelsea Clinton, premiered in 2021 and she is the co-founder of HiddenLight Productions.  

Chelsea holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford, a Master of Public Health from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. She lives with her husband Marc, and their children Charlotte, Aidan, and Jasper, in New York City. 

Nat Kendall-Taylor serves as Chief Executive Officer at the FrameWorks Institute. Nat oversees the organization’s pioneering, research-based approach to strategic communications, which uses methods from the social and behavioral sciences to measure how people understand complex socio-political issues and tests ways to reframe them to drive social change. As CEO, he leads a multi-disciplinary team of social scientists and communications practitioners who investigate ways to apply innovative framing research methods to social issues and train nonprofit organizations to put the findings into practice.

An expert in psychological anthropology and communications science, Nat publishes widely in the popular and professional press and lectures frequently in the United States and abroad. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Science Communication, Human Organization, Applied Communications Research, Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Annals of Anthropological Practice. He has presented at numerous conferences and organizations in the United States and around the world, ranging from Harvard University and the National Academy of Sciences to the Parenting Research Centre in Australia, the Science and Society Symposium in Canada, and Amnesty International in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow at the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, a visiting professor at the Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine, and a fellow at the British- American Project.

Nat joined FrameWorks in 2008; since then, he has led work across the FrameWorks portfolio, with a special focus on issues related to early childhood development and mental health, criminal justice, and aging. He has also led the expansion of FrameWorks’ work outside the United States, working in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Kenya, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Prior to joining FrameWorks, Nat’s research focused on understanding the social and cultural factors that create health disparities and affect decision-making. He has conducted fieldwork on the Swahili coast of Kenya, where he studied pediatric epilepsy, traditional healing, and the impacts of chronic illness on family well-being, and in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, where he studied child marriage and higher education. He has also conducted ethnographic research on theories of motivation in “extreme” athletes. Nat holds a BA from Emory University and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Greg Propper has over 25 years of experience at the intersection of public policy, nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and entertainment. Greg is the co-founder and President of Propper Daley, the social impact agency behind the world’s leading changemakers, that fuses strategic insights with creative execution to move the needle on the most pressing issues of our time. Select Clients Include: The Clinton Foundation; The Call of Duty Endowment; Viacom; The Shawn Mendes Foundation; Everytown for Gun Safety; Planned Parenthood; Best Buy; Interscope; Camila Cabello; Cardi B; Madonna’s Raising Malawi; Chrissy Teigen; Biden for President, Hilton Hotels; John Legend; SoulCycle; The Walt Disney Company, Youth Villages, Bradley Cooper, Babylist, and Steven Tyler’s Janie’s Fund. 
 
Prior to founding Propper Daley, Greg served as Executive Director of ServiceNation and Managing Director of Be the Change, Inc., leading the effort to pass the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act during the first 100 days of the Obama Administration — the largest expansion of national and community service since the Great Depression. He is a member of the board of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, LIFT Los Angeles, the New Politics Leadership Academy, and serves as a board member and President Emeritus of the Social Impact Fund. He holds a B.A. with high honors from Tufts University and a J.D. from Cardozo School of Law in New York City. 

Laura Schifter is a senior fellow with the Aspen Institute where she founded and directs This Is Planet Ed, an initiative to unlock the power of education as a force for climate action, solutions, and environmental justice to empower the rising generation to lead a sustainable, resilient, and equitable future. She is also a lecturer on education with the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she teaches courses on education, climate change, and policy.  

 Previously, she worked as a policy and research consultant with clients including Education 2020, the Massachusetts Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Justice. She also served as a senior education and disability advisor for Rep. George Miller (D-CA) on the Committee on Education and Labor, an education fellow for Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, and a fellow with the Century Foundation. After graduating from college, she taught elementary school in San Francisco. Schifter earned an Ed.D. in education policy, leadership, and instructional practice and an Ed.M. in Mind, Brain, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. in American studies from Amherst College. 

Erika Soto Lamb works with companies, organizations, and culture leaders to drive positive change on the toughest social issues. 

She was the founding head of social impact strategy at Comedy Central and now leads campaigns for Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios at Paramount. That means that she leverages the power of the brands, shows and talent she works with to engage audiences towards activism. 

In this role she is a co-founder of Power the Polls, the first national campaign to recruit the new generation of poll workers that saved the 2020 election; a founder of Mental Health Action Day; a steering committee member for the inaugural Vote Early Day; and an advisory board member of the Civic Alliance and the Impact Guild. 

Erika was previously the founding chief communications officer at Everytown for Gun Safety, where, in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, she helped build the country’s largest gun violence prevention organization that includes Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Michael Bloomberg-founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns. She continues to focus on shifting cultural narratives about guns as a steering committee member for Project Unloaded.  

Earlier in her career, Erika worked at public affairs firms providing strategic communications counsel to candidates, causes, corporations and international government clients. Her pro-bono side hustles include helping elect more women and people of color to public office and sitting on the board of the Violence Intervention Program, Inc., a direct service and advocacy organization working to end intimate partner violence and empower women – and in particular Latinas – in New York City.  

Erika has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Stanford University and a Master of Science in Strategic Communications from Columbia University. She is an indigenous Latina from border town El Paso, Texas and resides in New York City with her family, including two perfect sons. 

As vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, Chelsea Clinton works alongside the Foundation’s leadership and partners to improve lives and inspire emerging leaders across the United States and around the world. This includes the Foundation’s early child initiative Too Small to Fail, which supports families with the resources they need to promote early brain and language development; and the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), a global program that empowers student leaders to turn their ideas into action. A longtime public health advocate, Chelsea also serves as vice chair of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and uses her platform to increase awareness around issues such as vaccine hesitancy, childhood obesity, and health equity.   

In addition to her Foundation work, Chelsea teaches at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and has written several books for young readers, including the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World as well as She Persisted Around the World, She Persisted in Sports, She Persisted in Science, Start Now! You Can Make a Difference; Don’t Let Them Disappear; It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going; and Welcome to the Big Kids Club. She is also the co-author of The Book of Gutsy Women and Grandma’s Gardens with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and of Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? with Devi Sridhar. Chelsea’s podcast, In Fact with Chelsea Clinton, premiered in 2021 and she is the co-founder of HiddenLight Productions.  

Chelsea holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford, a Master of Public Health from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and both a Master of Philosophy and a Doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. She lives with her husband Marc, and their children Charlotte, Aidan, and Jasper, in New York City.