Kevin Danaher

Dr. Kevin Danaher is a co-founder of Global Exchange (1988), founder and Executive Co-Producer of the Green Festivals (2001), and Executive Director of the Global Citizen Center (2004). He was the founding Board Chair of TransFairUSA, the fair trade certifying agency for the United States. Kevin received his PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his BA from Sonoma State University. He is the author and/or editor of 11 books, including his latest, with Jason Mark and Shannon Biggs, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots, published in 2007 by PoliPoint Press.

Kevin's current projects include the Green Festivals (www.greenfestivals.org), a weekend gathering (co-produced with Coop America) of 400 green companies, nonprofit social change organizations, more than 100 exciting speakers, organic vegetarian restaurants, diverse live music and much more. His other project is the Global Citizen Center (globalcitizencenter.org), which is developing a 120,000sf nonprofit building that is bringing together green retail, a restaurant, offices of nonprofit social justice and environmental organizations, event spaces, and affordable housing for teachers and first responders in a downtown location in San Francisco. This building is being developed as a prototype that can be replicated in other cities around the world to unite the green economy movement.