Hailey Campbell to Become CAC Interim Executive Director

Meet Hailey!

A native Texan, Hailey (she/her) is a climate activist, currently serving as an Americorps VISTA with the City and County of Honolulu’s Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resiliency. She holds a Master’s of Sustainability Solutions, Bachelor of Science in Sustainability, and a Certificate in Cross-sector Collaboration from Arizona State University. As a member of the Youth Constituency of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Hailey collaborated with the Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) Working Group at COP26, leading to the first-ever inclusion of young people in the new ACE Work Program. In this role, she also co-organized the 2021 ACE Youth Forum, which brought together hundreds of young people around the world to discuss ACE in action and policy priorities for the new work program.

Previously, she worked on climate resilience at her university’s sustainability office, sustainable development on islands with the Local2030 Islands Network, sustainability curriculum design for resource constrained communities, and local zero waste projects in Costa Rica and Arizona. 

Her work has led her to represent young people at events including the Planet Forward Summit, 8th ACE Dialogues, 2021 ECOSOC Youth Forum, and COP26.

Hailey strives to create learning opportunities that strengthen our relationships with the earth, each other, and our local to global community to promote just, fair, urgent, and intersectional sustainable development, while building climate resilience.