Mary Nicol, Project Hot Seat Student Network Coordinator

Mary has worked on legislative and corporate campaigns on the local, state, and national levels. In the fall of 2007, she was a key organizer for Power Shift 2007, working to recruit 6,000 students for the largest youth global warming summit ever held. Mary joined the Student PIRGs' staff as the Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator in August 2006. She worked with students on over 50 campuses across the country training them how to run their campaigns most effectively. In the fall of 2005, she helped organize an Arctic Refuge Action Day, bringing 5,000 activists to Washington, D.C. to lobby their Congress members on behalf of Arctic protection. Mary is a graduate of the Green Corps Class of 2006 and a 2005 graduate of Emory University.