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Co-founder and CEO

Wendy Abrams

Wendy has been an environmental and social activist for more than 25 years. In 2019, Abrams was honored by RFK Human Rights as a Ripple of Hope Award Laureate for her activism.

In 2005, Abrams established Cool Globes, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of climate change using public art and education.  The Cool Globes exhibit premiered in Chicago in 2007 and went on to tour 4 continents and has been translated into 9 languages. Abrams has also used public art as a platform for activism; she curated the “Invisible Words” exhibition to amplify the voices of the homeless.

Abrams is a founding partner of The Earthshot Prize, in partnership with the Royal Foundation in London. Abrams also served as an advisor in establishing California Climate Action Corps, which is being replicated in states throughout the U.S. 

Wendy serves on Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees, and the board of The Climate Reality Project. She previously served on boards, including: NRDC Action Fund, Environmental Defense c4, the Field Museum of Natural History, Waterkeeper Alliance as well as Chicago’s PBS station, WTTW. Abrams was an Executive Producer of several documentaries, including: “The Here Now Project”; “Years of Living Dangerously”; “I Voted?” and Apple TV’s five part series, “Visible: Out on T.V.”

Wendy graduated from Brown University and received her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Wendy and her husband, Jim, have four children.