To contact an individual please click their name to send email.

Andrew Behar, CEO

Andrew Behar, As You Sow CEO, has 30 years of experience as a Senior Executive and strategist in the clean-tech, communications and life science sectors. Prior to joining As You Sow, Andrew founded and was CEO of a clean-tech start-up developing innovative fuel cell technologies. He served as COO for a social media agency focused in the sustainability space and has been a strategic consultant in the non-profit sector. He has founded and run start-ups in the medical device and communications areas and serves on the boards of several high-tech innovation companies.

Larry Fahn, President

Larry Fahn has been with As You Sow since 1998. An accomplished trial attorney and environmental lawyer, Larry received dual Bachelors in Environmental Studies and Rhetoric from U.C. Davis in 1976, and his J.D. from UC/Hastings College of Law in 1979. During the 1990's, Larry chaired the Sierra Club's enormously successful California political program, was subsequently elected to its national Board of Directors of the Sierra Club in 1999, and served two terms as national Sierra Club President. In December of 2009, Fahn will be joining environmental leaders from around the world and serving as a delegate to the U.N.’s COP-15 Climate Change treaty negotiations summit in Copenhagen Denmark. Under Larry's leadership, As You Sow's Environmental Enforcement program has focused on environmental health by bringing enforcement actions leading entire industries to reformulate consumer products to reduce or eliminate toxic chemicals and heavy metals.

Conrad MacKerron, Senior Program Director

Conrad MacKerron has more than a decade of experience managing corporate dialogues and shareholder advocacy initiatives on cutting-edge social and environmental issues. Conrad founded the As You Sow Corporate Social Responsibility Program in 1997. He is former senior social researcher at Piper Jaffray Philanthropic & Social Investment Consulting, and Social Research Director at Progressive Asset Management (both social investment firms). He also served as Senior Analyst, Energy and Environment, at the Investor Responsibility Research Center (now part of RiskMetrics Group). Formerly a journalist, he was Washington Bureau Chief for Chemical Week and a writer for BNA's Environment Reporter. He is author of Business in the Rainforests: Corporations, Deforestation and Sustainability (IRRC, 1993) and Unlocking the Power of the Proxy (2004). Conrad served on the board of the Social Investment Forum (SIF), and was chair of the steering committee for its Advocacy and Public Policy Program. He also served on the As You Sow Board of Directors from 1993 until 2005. In 2007, he received the SRI Service Award from SIF for “outstanding contributions to the SRI community.” He holds a Masters Degree in Journalism and Public Affairs from The American University.

Michael Passoff, Senior Program Director

Michael is a leading practitioner of shareholder advocacy on social and environmental issues. For nearly 15 years he has been engaging the nation’s largest investors and corporations including Disney, McDonalds, Starbucks, Exxon, and DuPont among many others. His shareholder advocacy work led him to be named as one of 2009’s “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics,” and he also received the 2009 Climate Change Business Journal award for NGO activism. Michael authors an annual Proxy Preview that is designed to help foundations identify shareholder resolutions related to their mission and provides additional information on how foundations can align their mission and investments. The Chicago Tribune called the Preview “a bible for socially progressive foundations, religious groups, pension funds and other tax-exempt organizations.”

Prior to As You Sow, Michael served as a consultant to the Peace Corps environmental program, and as program director for the Soviet-American Environmental Exchange, San Francisco State University's Wildlands Research program in Nepal, and Rainforest Action Network's old-growth forest campaign. He conducted his graduate studies in the department of Natural Resource Management at the University of Alberta and was awarded a fellowship to the International Institute for Protected Area Management

Karalyn Buchner, Operations and Environmental Enforcement Director

Karalyn Buchner began working for As You Sow during law school and became the organization's Staff Attorney in 1998. During law school, she was an Associate Editor for Law Review and competed in the Pace University Environmental Law Moot Court Competition. Additionally, Karalyn was a Public Interest Law Scholar and earned a certificate with distinction in environmental law. She also completed internships with the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to law school, Karalyn worked in the financial industry. She earned her law degree from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco and served on the Board of Directors of the Golden Gate University Alumni Association from 2001 to 2005. She holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As staff attorney, she oversees the Environmental Enforcement program and its growing grantmaking activities.

Holly Harbour Boyer, Development Director

Holly oversees fundraising operations for As You Sow. She has extensive experience in fundraising, program management, and communications with both international nonprofit and for-profit organizations including World of Good: Development Organization, Population Institute, and Trilogy Software. Prior to joining As You Sow, Holly was the Co-Founder and Executive Director at World of Good: Development Organization and currently serves on the board. She was also awarded the Future Leaders of the World Fellowship by the Population Institute. Holly has an MA from the London School of Economics in Population and Development and a BA from The Colorado College in International Political Economy.

Amy Galland, Research Director

Amy Galland is Research Director at As You Sow. In that capacity she researches, analyzes, and publishes industry reports on Corporate Social Responsibility policies and benchmarks best practices in recycling, sustainability, product safety, purchasing, and supply chain monitoring. Amy also conducts the research for all shareholder campaigns and leads shareholder engagements on sustainability, greenhouse gas reduction/renewable energy, and environmental health. Prior to joining As You Sow, Amy worked as a consultant providing strategy, business development, marketing, and organizational design expertise to nonprofit organizations and small businesses. She has worked as project manager and production coordinator in the music industry and as an adjunct assistant professor of art history at Binghamton University. Amy was awarded an MBA and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles, an MA in anthropology from Stanford University, and a BA in philosophy and art history from Tufts University.

Patricia Jurewicz, Director, Responsible Sourcing Network

Patricia joined As You Sow in 2006 and now heads up the Responsible Sourcing Network, which addresses human rights abuses at the raw commodity level of corporate supply chains. Previously she was at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and at Gap, Inc. She has past work experience with natural dyes, Latino political outreach, and women's cooperatives. She has degrees from Thunderbird Business School, Cornell University, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Daniel Fibiger, Program Manager, Responsible Sourcing Network

Before moving to San Francisco, Dan was the Interim Managing Director of an NGO in Southeast Asia. Dan graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a Master’s degree in Global Political Economy, and also holds a joint BA in Political Science and International Development Studies from McGill University. In 2007 he was a research fellow with the International Labor Rights Forum in Washington DC, and has previously conducted research and/or worked in various countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Central America. Since 2007, Dan has been working on and studying the global supply chains of cotton, and still has yet to figure them out.

Katherine Kassing, Communications Manager

Katherine manages internal and external communications for As You Sow, including outreach to both old and new media outlets, as the Marketing and Communications Manager. Before becoming the organization’s communications department, she worked on their Anti-slavery campaign, where she provided website, design, and project management expertise. She graduated with Honors from the University of Puget Sound and received a Certificat de merit from the Université de Bourgogne, Dijon in 2007.

Corinne Bendersky, Program Manager

Corinne is the Program Manager at As You Sow, where she supports Program Directors on CSRP and EE initiatives and manages the organizational project plan. She developed her background in corporate responsibility and project management while working with the environmental consulting firm Wallace Partners where she analyzed corporate environmental initiatives and identified sustainability strategies for large corporate clients. She then assisted the Pew Center on Global Climate Change with CSR research, helped coordinate Business Environmental Leadership Council workshops, and consulted on emerging viral marketing tools. This experience led her to influenceXchange, where she served as a Project Coordinator and Outreach Manager, utilizing her background in CSR, project management, and social media to help strategize and coordinate outreach campaigns to make a significant impact on consumer awareness surrounding sustainability and the environmental movement at large. Corinne graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies.

Steven Low, Operations and Communications Associate

For the past twelve years, Steven has dedicated his professional career to the social and environmental justice fields, focusing on administration and fundraising. After managing the major gifts program at Communities for a Better Environment (CBE), Steven became Development Director at the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO). He brings an extensive knowledge of event management and individual and institutional fundraising to As You Sow. He holds a Bachelors degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and will be attaining an MA in Communication from San Francisco State University.