Billy Parish
Co-Founder and Coordinator, Energy Action Coalition. Energy Action has brought together over 45 diverse, youth-led organizations into a joint campaign to catalyze the transition to a clean energy economy called The Campus Climate Challenge. Billy was a 2004 Brower Youth Award, 2005 Rolling Stone magazine “Climate Hero”, Mother Jones magazine’s 2006 Student Activist of the Year, and was recently named Fellow by Ashoka, the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. A co-author of the report New Energy for Campuses, a guide for colleges and universities on how to cost-effectively cut their greenhouse gas emissions, Billy works to train students and equip them with the tools they need to implement local climate solutions. Billy has taken four years off from Yale, where he was co-chair of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition and was majoring in Ethics, Politics & Economics. Born in New York City, Billy now lives in Flagstaff, AZ.
