April 29, 2024 | 9:00am

Tim Guinee and Shawn Harpen Join the Board of Directors of Climate Reality Action Fund

Washington, DC (April 29, 2024) – Today, Climate Reality Action Fund, founded by former Vice President Al Gore, announced that actor, director, and Climate Action Now president Tim Guinee (he/him) and Attorney at Law Shawn Harpen (she/her) have been appointed as the newest members of the organization’s Board of Directors.

As members of the board, Guinee and Harpen will help lead Climate Reality Action Fund’s ongoing work to make climate action the top priority in politics. The organization is mobilizing Americans of all ages and walks of life to make ambitious action to solve the climate crisis and make a just transition to clean energy a top priority for policymakers in 2024 and beyond.

Tim Guinee is the President of Climate Action Now and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on Accelerating Climate Solutions. He is the founder of The Climate Actors, serves on the Advisory Council of Riverkeeper, the Advisory Board of the Center for Earth Ethics, and the Board of Directors at the Ashokan Center (New York's oldest outdoor environmental education center). He is the official climate change liaison for the town of Marbletown, NY with the Climate Mayors. Tim has done significant work at the state level, including helping the passage of CLCPA, and has also secured dozens of local wins for the 100% Committed campaign. He has also delivered presentations for varied audiences, including conservative fire departments, Houston oil-industry executives and maximum-security inmates.

Shawn Harpen has led teams in legal, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations for the last 25 years. After practicing as a litigator and corporate governance attorney, and then as chief legal officer and general counsel of Patrón Spirits International AG, in 2019, she directed her focus toward addressing challenges of climate change. She became an active member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, and obtained a Public Leadership Credential from Harvard Kennedy School, as well as graduate certificates in Environmental Policy and International Development and Corporate Sustainability and Innovation from Harvard Extension School, where she is an ALM candidate in Sustainability. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of Px3 Legal Consulting Corporation, where she assists clients in governance, policy development and other legal matters, with a focus on the three components of the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit.

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