Doug Phelps

Mr. Phelps is President and Executive Director of the Public Interest Network, a foundry for change organizations. Mr. Phelps is also Chairman of the Board of U.S. PIRG, the national federation of State PIRGs and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Fund for the Public Interest, a national nonprofit that runs grassroots campaigns to raise money, sign up members, educate the public and build political support for the nation’s leading progressive non-profits, such as Environment America, U.S. PIRG and the Human Rights Campaign. Mr. Phelps chairs the board of Green Corps, the field training school for environmental organizing, and serves on the boards of Green Century Funds, the nation’s first environmentally responsible mutual fund family, and the National Environmental Law Center. He lives in Colorado and is a graduate of Colorado State University and the Harvard Law School. He previously directed Harvard Law School’s public interest and public service careers program.