User Profile for Jerome Ringo (jringo)

Bio: Jerome Ringo

Jerome Ringo is the president of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of organized labor, environmental, business and civil rights leaders determined to free the United States of dependence on foreign oil. The alliance is trying to educate the public and lobby the Hill about the need to invest in alternative clean-energy sources, energy-efficient technology and jobs. Ringo’s experience organizing environmental and labor communities, and his drive to further diversify the environmental movement, unites many of Apollo’s partners to create a broad based coalition providing real solutions for our energy crisis.

In 1996, Ringo was elected to serve on the National Wildlife Federation board of directors and, in 2005, Jerome became the chair of the board. In so doing, he also became the first African American to head a major conservation organization. Jerome Ringo was the United States’ only black delegate at the 1998 Global Warming Treaty Negotiations in Kyoto, Japan. In addition to being present during Kyoto Treaty Negotiations, Ringo represented the National Wildlife Federation at the United Nations conference on sustainable development in 1999.

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