Founder / Executive Director - West Coast
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Annie has 30 years of leadership and experience in planning, developing, and maintaining programs using sustainable, holistic approaches for social enterprises and community building worldwide. She is a current UN NGO delegate for ERI affiliated with the International Union for Land Value Taxation (IU). She has presented at international conferences and forums on climate change, sustainable development, and leadership, including at the United Nations. Ms. Goeke and ERI have worked on a wide range of initiatives and programs, including ecological community development, fair trade, potable water solutions, waste management/recycling, urban youth programs, peacebuilding education, economic policy reform, local organic farming collectives, and markets.
Her experience uniquely combines a wide breadth of knowledge about 'green' practices in the marketplace and the implementation process for sustainable development. She has developed an unmatched and local communities range of contacts and relationships with stakeholders worldwide who work on global development. Her recent focus has been on climate action plans for Africa. She is currently leading the "Climate Action Plan for Cocody, EcoCity Initiative" located in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. This program is designed as a franchised initiative to mobilize the rest of West Africa. Her role is to elevate Africa's involvement in finding innovative solutions to addressing climate change and present their readiness and earnest commitment to the international networks like C40, R20, GEF and others who are directly involved in climate change. Besides her international engagement, Annie has always been involved with her local community. From 2008-2016, she was an appointed Commissioner on the Status of Women and Young Girls in Santa Monica.
SPECIALTIES
consultant, sustainable development expertise, global development consultant, non-profit administrator, non-profit management consultant, speaker on global development, climate change
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Over many years, Annie has been involved as a community activist who has promoted green markets, healthy lifestyles and progressive agendas concerning one's community. Annie is also noted as a leader in the Greens and Peace movement worldwide for over a decade.
- Chair, Santa Monica Commission on the Status of Women
- Green Party - Co-chair of the National Steering Committee and International Committee
- Delegate for the Global Greens Coordination
- Co-founder of Lancaster Greens, Green Party of PA and ASGP
- Co-founder of a local chapter Women in Black (international peace organization)
- Co-designed/taught an educational curriculum for educators on peacebuilding
She has worked with Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire and helped initiate a new international program developing the criteria and certification for sustainable development. In 2002-2004, Annie Goeke participated in the United Nations World Summit in Johannesburg, World Social Forum 2003 in Porto Alegre, UN CSD11 and 12 in NYC, and WTO in Cancun.
She is also an author and lived in numerous countries around the world. She developed a promo on the introduction of a TV series, a home-style program that presents projects on how to live green.
BOOKS
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CURRICULUM
VIDEOS
Outstanding Women Leaders - CoChair International Women's Day Breakfast 2019
Really Living with Eco Annie
MEDIA & NEWS
