Jeff Conant

Director, International Forests Program, Friends of the Earth

Jeff Conant currently directs the international forests program at Friends of the Earth US, which catalyzes strategic research, communications and popular mobilization to shift financing away from the activities that threaten tropical rainforests and the rights of forest-dwelling peoples.  

Jeff has worked on issues of international development, social ecology and climate justice for two decades. He’s the co-author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health, a grassroots educational manual published in over a dozen languages; A Community Action Guide to the Asian Development Bank; author of A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency, and translator of Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine.