Loren Finkelstein's Bio

My YES! Jams
2001 World Jam

Location: San Francisco

Bio:

At the age of 16, Loren began her organizing career campaigning with the Public Interest Research Group to strengthen the National Clean Water Act. In 1997, Loren was hired as Program Director of Free the Planet!, a national network of high school and college students taking action to protect the environment. In her three years on staff, she helped run seven national environmental campaigns, published a monthly newsletter, and organized and facilitated conferences and trainings. Today, she is co-founder of Freedom Rising, a collective of artists and grassroots organizers working to stop corporate globalization and to bring about global liberation.