Becoming a leader and developing the leadership of others are essential to winning the battles on climate and democracy! Nobody can be everything we need in a leader. But each of us—especially those of us in our Third Act—can become an effective leader. Let's learn how to become effective leaders together!

About this event

The purpose of this workshop is to help build your leadership and to learn some ideas and tactics about how to engage others in Third Act.

In this workshop, we will cover:

  • What is leadership
  • How do we build more leadership
  • Tactics to build leadership and engage new members

By building practices into daily work of identifying new leaders, recruiting them, and developing their leadership, we can build the power of the people that is irresistible and unstoppable.

B Fulkerson (they/she), Third Act’s Organizing Director. 

B is a fifth-generation Nevadan who was raised by a father disabled in the Vietnam war and a mother who protested that war by hanging a giant “Give Peace a Chance” banner from their home in Reno –parents who many times bailed her out of jail for good trouble. Their first and second acts featured running social and  environmental justice groups in Nevada, raising a daughter, and snaring a husband from Fallon. B’s third act centers on their grandchildren, the joy of organizing elders, and reimagining the gender binary and other unsatisfactory frameworks as a late-blooming trans activist.

Bill McKibben, Third Act co-founder

Bill is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He has written more than twenty books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature, published in 1989, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened, and his latest book is Here Comes The Sun.

Diane Nissen, Third Act National Volunteer

Diane is a national volunteer. She splits her time between Tucson, AZ and Philadelphia, PA.  She is a Democratic committee person in Pennsylvania and is also active with Indivisible.  

lani ritter hall, Third Act national volunteer

lani is a national volunteer from NE Ohio. She supports the Organizing team and has the honor of facilitating Third Act National Volunteers and Third Act Volunteer Coordinators.

Liz Evans, Third Act Upstate New York Co-Facilitator

Liz is based in the Adirondacks, she is a co-facilitator of the Third Act Upstate New York Working Group. In collaboration with TA-NYC and an amazing coalition, we work to celebrate and accelerate New York State’s transition to clean, renewable, affordable energy – mostly SOLAR! Liz is also a web coach on the National Volunteers team.

Mark Rasmuson, Third Act DC Co-Facilitator

Mark is co-founder of the Third Act DC Working Group, he served as one of its first Co-Facilitators, and is currently the Communications Coordinator.  He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal and then worked in the international health field for 40 years, assisting child health, infectious disease, and disability programs in more than 20 developing countries, including long-term assignments in Indonesia, Vietnam, The Gambia, and Uganda.  He and his wife Laurel are parents of two children and grandparents of three little boys, who are the inspiration for his work with Third Act.

Molly Schen, Third Act Maine Co-Facilitator

Molly, Ed.D., is a co-facilitator Third Act Maine and also leads the Membership Committee and serves on the Communications Team. She had a rewarding career in schools and nonprofits, and has served on the local school board. She also enjoys commissioning choral music, most recently a piece about birds and climate change, Songbird Antiphons.