Sally Ann Ranney is a businesswoman, environmental strategist, activist, and visionary with four decades of experience in environmental management, renewable energy, wetland banking, water, biodiversity, sustainability, and the climate change sectors. She works in the public and private sectors at the local, national and international levels.
Sally is President/Co-Founder of the American Renewable Energy Institute (AREI) and AREDAY Summit, Chairwoman, Co-Founder & President of GlobalChoice.Org (GC.Org), and CEO of Stillwater Preservation, LLC, a wetlands mitigation banking company. She was co-founder of IWECI which established the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN). Sally is a member of the National Board of Directors of the National Wildlife Federation (USA), the largest membership environmental organization in the USA, with over 6 million members and a member of the Global Advisory Committee of Women and the Green Economy (WAGE) as well as a Managing Partner of S & C, LLC, Sally is a Senior Advisor to the One Humanity Institute (Poland) and to the MAPS (Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary UN Treaty) campaign based in Canada. She has worked with three U.S. presidents, including Presidents Carter, Clinton and his transition team, and received a Presidential Appointment by President Reagan to serve on the Presidential Commission on American Outdoors. She serves on the Board of the Climate Accountability Institute and the Bonobo Conservation Initiative. Sally is a Founding Benefactor of Artemis, a sportswoman's group mobilizing the voice and engagement of women across the US in defense of America’s public lands heritage, amplifying the voice of women demanding climate change solutions and protection of wildlife habitat, rivers, and watersheds.