Michael Brune
Executive Director
Michael Brune is the executive director for Rainforest Action Network (RAN). He oversees, coordinates, and provides strategic direction for the organization's programs. Previously, Brune served as the director of RAN's Old Growth Campaign, leading the effort to push Home Depot to adopt its landmark wood purchasing policy - a triumph which prompted more than one-third of the home improvement industry to follow suit. Brune currently directs strategy for RAN's programs, including the organization's campaigns to wake up logging giant Weyerhaeuser and to reduce the ecological and social footprint of the financial services industry. Brune also is a force in shaping RAN's Freedom from Oil Campaign, which was designed to help break America's oil addiction.
Prior to joining RAN, Brune worked with the Coastal Rainforest Coalition and Greenpeace, where he ran the San Francisco office for two years. Brune earned dual BS degrees in Economics and Finance from West Chester University.
Randall Hayes
Founder and President Emeritus
Randy has been described in the Wall Street Journal as "an environmental pit bull." His training ground as an activist was documentary filmmaking. He produced the award-winning film The Four Corners, A National Sacrifice Area? which documents the tragic effects of uranium and coal mining on Hopi and Navajo Indian lands in the American Southwest. Now, as President of Rainforest Action Network, Randy is a leader in the efforts to halt destruction of tropical rainforests and to fight for the rights of indigenous people. He is fighting to confront the over-consumption of wood, calling for a 75% reduction of wood and wood based paper in the US. He works with organizers and regional networks worldwide in building a movement for effective social change. His "500 Year Planning Process" spells out a vision of a sustainable society and how to get there.
Jennifer Krill
Program Director
Joining RAN in 1999, Jennifer served as an organizer on the group’s campaign to eliminate products from old-growth forests in the US. Jennifer organized external pressure campaigns and boardroom negotiations that resulted in commitments from several companies—including Home Depot, Lowe’s, Menards, Lanoga and Boise Cascade. She was elevated to director of RAN’s Old Growth campaign in 2002, serving in that position until taking the reins of the organization's Zero Emissions campaign in 2004. Jennifer’s expertise includes developing media and public relations strategies, grassroots organizing, outreach strategies, and formulating successful policies. Before joining RAN, she worked at Earth Island Institute's Sea Turtle Restoration Project and for Greenpeace. Jennifer received bachelor’s degrees in Landscape Architecture and History from Ball State University in 1995.
Brant Olson
Old Growth Campaign Director
The campaign harnesses the power of people to lead corporate America out of the world’s last remaining old growth and other endangered forests. Before joining RAN, Brant worked to promote clean air with the Public Interest Research Group in Washington, DC. He has also worked with many of the country’s most effective home-grown activist groups like Mobilization for Global Justice, Direct Action to Stop the War and the Mintwood Media Collective. He first worked to organize students for the November 1999 protests at the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle.
