Sally Ann Ranney
Currently, Sally Ann is President/Co-Founder of Global Choices and the Arctic Angels, a global
leadership network of young women climate justice activists. She is Chair of the Conservation
Committee of The Explorer’s Club, is an Advisor for CORE, and is an Advisory Council Member of
Daughters of the Earth. She is President Emeritus/Co-Founder of American Renewable Energy Institute
(AREI) and AREDAY Summit. Sally Ann is also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Wildlife
Federation (USA), the largest membership conservation organization in the USA with over 6 million
members as well as the Bonobo Conservation (DR Congo). She is a Senior Advisor to the One Humanity
Institute (Poland), the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (USA) which works with Indigenous
women on the front lines of climate change and the Getches-Wilkinson Natural Resources Law Center,
University of Colorado. An avid Fly-fisher and hunter, Sally Ann is a Founding Benefactor of Artemis, a
sportswoman’s group mobilizing the voice and engagement of women across the USA in defense of
America’s public lands heritage and the protection of wildlife habitat, rivers and watersheds as well as
serves as the Vice President of Colorado Headwaters and on the Board of the Climate Accountability
Institute which produced Car- bon Majors, an internationally acclaimed study of the primary sources of
CO2 and related emissions. Sally Ann was included in the ‘100 Top Environmentalist in the World You
Should Know’ (2020) alongside Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva.
Over the course of her career, Ms. Ranney has worked with three US Presidents, including Carter,
Clinton and his transition team, as well as a member of the Presidential Commission on American
Outdoors, an appointment by President Ronald Reagan. She was a founding Board member of the Grand
Canyon Trust, served as a Patron of Nature for IUCN (Inter- national Union of the Conservation of
Nature) (Switzerland) and on the Board of the Galmann Nature Conservancy (Kenya). She was Co-
Founder of IWECI, precursor to the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), and a
member of the Global Advisory Committee of Women and the Green Economy (WAGE). A Resource
Policy Analyst and Field Representative for The Wilderness Society (TWS) for sever- al years, she cofounded
American Wildlands (AWL) upon leaving TWS. While serving as President of AWL, she
orchestrated the development of Corridors of Life, the largest GIS mapping and land management
project ever undertaken by an NGO at the time. She also served as Advisor to Round Rock Partners, LLC,
a pioneering impact investment company and ad- vised Goldman Sachs on a large, ecologically
significant land asset they purchased in Tierra del Fuego.
Ms. Ranney has received many Recognitions and Awards, including the Horace Albright Award,
International Conservation Award (USA Govt); Earth Stewardship Award (Earth Guardians’); American
Riviera Woman Entrepreneur of the Year (ARWEY) Award Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation
(CELF) Lifetime Achievement Award; Lifetime Achievement Recognition, Lighthawk. She was recently
named one of thirty-five women to be included in the International Women in Wildlife.
Sally Ann’s education includes a BA in Fine Arts with a teaching minor in Geology, an MA in Education
(Western State University) and Doctoral studies at Yale University, School of Environmental Studies, under
an R. K Mellon Fellowship.