About Dominique Browning

Dominique Browning

Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund; Director and Co-Founder, Moms Clean Air Force

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Areas of expertise:

Climate, air pollution, children's health, public health, soot, ozone, advanced recycling, petrochemicals, methane, mercury, toxics, electric school buses, clean transportation

More than ten years ago, Dominique Browning convened a series of conversations with women who had expertise in climate policy, regulatory and legal clean air issues, marketing, and business to discuss how to engage and mobilize people—and specifically mothers—to fight climate pollution. Today, Dominique leads Moms Clean Air Force with the mission of changing the focus of our national conversation about global warming from polar bears to people. Moms Clean Air Force is now a national organization of over a million mothers, with over a dozen state chapters, uniting to protect our children’s health and well-being by making sure our clean air, toxic chemicals, and climate rules and laws are as strong as they can be.

Background

Previous to joining Environmental Defense Fund, Browning spent decades in the magazine world, where she worked as an editor at Esquire, Texas Monthly, and House & Garden. At the Washington Post’s Newsweek in the 1980s, she broke the glass ceiling in becoming the first woman assistant managing editor of any of the U.S. newsmagazines. She is the author of several books and has contributed regularly to Time.com and The New York Times.

Browning is a recipient of the Audubon Women in Conservation’s prestigious Rachel Carson Award and was recently honored with an Advocates Award from Environmental Advocates of New York. She was also awarded the “BreatheLife Voice” honor by the World Health Organization. As a BreatheLife Voice, she joins an international contingent of leaders who use their platforms to call attention to the dangers of air pollution—and drive solutions.

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