Kevin Danaher
Co-founder of Global Exchange, Founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals, and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center
Green Jobs and the Global Economy
Dr. Kevin Danaher is a co-founder of Global Exchange (1988), founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals (2001), and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center (2004). He was the founding Board Chair of TransFairUSA, the fair trade certifying agency for the United States.
Danaher received his PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his BA from Sonoma State University. He is the author and/or editor of 13 books, including his latest, The Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change (2008), and Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots (2007). He has lectured at universities and to community organizations throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. He has appeared on television and radio shows around the country. He has published articles in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many others.
Danaher’s current projects include the Green Festivals (www.greenfestivals.org), a weekend gathering in five cities (co-produced with Green America), comprising 350 green companies, nonprofit social change organizations, more than 100 exciting speakers, organic vegetarian restaurants, diverse live music and much more. His other project, building off the Green Festival, is the Global Citizen Center (globalcitizencenter.org), which is developing a nonprofit building that will bring together green retail, a restaurant, offices of nonprofit social justice and environmental organizations, event spaces, and affordable housing for teachers and first responders in a downtown location in San Francisco. This building is being developed as a prototype that can be replicated in other cities around the world to unite the green economy movement.
Danaher has lectured undergraduate and graduate course on subjects such as: Social Enterprise, Triple-Bottom-Line Economics, Accelerating the Transition to the Green Economy, and How to Restructure the Global Economic (dis)Order.
