Our Team
We partner with creators, thought leaders, and journalists to explain how smart policy can sustain a safe and livable planet. Meet our people.
Robert K. Elder
President & CEO
Andy Adams
Chief Digital & Communications Officer
David Vitse
Chief Climate Officer
Advisory Board
Lesley M.M. Blume
author, journalist, and historian
Tracey Holloway
climate scientist, University of Wisconsin and NASA team leader
Theo Kalionzes
Senior Advisor, The Oppenheimer Project
Michael E. Mann
climate scientist and author, University of Pennsylvania
Kendra Pierre-Louis
climate journalist
Sree Sreenivasan
Digital media executive and educator
Nicole Tisdale
Founder & Principal, Advocacy Blueprints
Richard Tofel
Media consultant and former president of ProPublica
Alex Toma
philanthropy and peace expert, Executive Director at Peace and Security Funders Group
Alex Wellerstein
nuclear historian, Stevens Institute of Technology
Charles Whitaker
Dean of The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern University
Penny Fujiko Willgerodt
Executive Director at Prospect Hill Foundation
Board of Directors
Frank Burgess
Founder and Board Chair
Ambassador Tom Loftus
Former Ambassador of Norway
Charles P. Ries
Senior Director of Development Design and Innovation at Marquette University
Hillary Vedvig
Wisconsin Director of Government Relations at The Nature Conservancy
Robert K. Elder
President & CEO
Outrider supports multimedia storytelling about nuclear issues and climate change.