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ClimateVoices · Episode 49 · 06-18-24
An interview with Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, the nation’s leading non-profit practitioner of shareholder advocacy and engagement. Previously Andrew was a documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur founding start-ups that developed innovative physiological monitoring devices and grid-scale fuel cells. He is an inventor on five patents and in 2023 was named as one of the Purposeful-50 “true changemakers who deliver on social justice, environmental protection, diversity, inclusion, racial equality, and gender and pay equity.” He is currently on the Sustainable Media Center Board of Advisors and is the author of the book, The Shareholders Action Guide: Unleash Your Hidden Powers to Hold Corporations Accountable.
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Andrew Behar
CEO of As You Sow
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