Introducing India RPCV Carl Pope
Introducing: Carl Pope
Carl Pope was appointed Executive Director of the Sierra Club in 1992. A veteran leader in the environmental movement, Mr. Pope has been with the Sierra Club for the past twenty years. In that time he served as Associate Conservation Director, Political Director and Conservation Director.
In addition to his work with the Sierra Club, Mr. Pope has had a very distinguished record of environmental activism and leadership. He has served on the Boards of the California League of Conservation Voters, Public Voice, National Clean Air Coalition, California Common Cause, Public Interest Economics, Inc., and Zero Population Growth. Mr. Pope was also Executive Director of the California League of Conservation Voters and the Political Director of Zero Population Growth.
Among his major accomplishments, Mr. Pope co-authored California Proposition 65, The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic initiative in 1986.
Mr. Pope graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1967. He then spent two years as a volunteer with the Peace Corps in Barhi Barhi, India. He now lives with his family in Berkeley,
