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Michele Prichard has recently retired after 34 years of staff service to the Los Angeles-based Liberty Hill Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serving as executive director from 1989 to 1997, Michele spearheaded the foundation\u2019s expansion into new grantmaking and donor education programs focused on poverty, racial justice and environmental health. Since then, she has led the Environmental and Climate Justice philanthropic work at Liberty Hill through a combination of cutting-edge research, alliance building and community organizing, including support for the STAND LA campaign (Standing Together Against Neighborhood Drilling-LA) that has won policy change to end fossil fuel extraction in Los Angeles. Prior to Liberty Hill, she worked at the Southern California Council of Churches on homelessness, peace, and human rights. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Michele has worked to expand philanthropy\u2019s commitment to social and environmental justice through many funder associations, and in 2012, received the Distinguished Service Award from the Council on Foundations, the association\u2019s highest honor. Since 2007, she has served as a Senior Fellow in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs where she mentors graduate students. Her most recent publication is\u00a0POWER OF PERSISTENCE: The Fight to End Neighborhood Oil Drilling in Los Angeles<\/a>\u00a0(Summer 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michele Prichard has recently retired after 34 years of staff service to the Los Angeles-based Liberty Hill Foundation.<\/p>\n

Serving as executive director from 1989 to 1997, Michele spearheaded the foundation\u2019s expansion into new grantmaking and donor education programs focused on poverty, racial justice and environmental health. Since then, she has led the Environmental and Climate Justice philanthropic work at Liberty Hill through a combination of cutting-edge research, alliance building and community organizing, including support for the STAND LA campaign (Standing Together Against Neighborhood Drilling-LA) that has won policy change to end fossil fuel extraction in Los Angeles. Prior to Liberty Hill, she worked at the Southern California Council of Churches on homelessness, peace, and human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":7527,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_hide_page_title_checkbox":"","p4_title":"","p4_subtitle":"","p4_description":"","background_image_id":"","background_image":"","p4_button_title":"","p4_button_link":"","p4_button_link_checkbox":"","p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-7521","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greenpeace","tag-leadership"],"yoast_head":"\nMichele Prichard, Chair - Greenpeace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/michele-prichard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michele Prichard, Chair\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michele Prichard has recently retired after 34 years of staff service to the Los Angeles-based Liberty Hill Foundation. 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