Ruth Breech

Ruth brings 13 years of on-the-ground work with environmental justice frontline communities. She specializes in providing air monitoring, organizing, organizational capacity building, fundraising, and media training. Ruth has conducted training and supported campaigns with leaders in 35 US States and 10 international locations including key relationships in India, South Africa, and Australia. Ruth is a published co-author in academic journals. She is the recipient of the 2009 Healthy School Heroes Award for her leadership in relocating an elementary school in Ohio away from a plastics plant’s cancer-causing emissions.

Ruth Breech is a Senior Campaigner with RAN’s Climate and Energy team. Ruth is responsible for organizing corporate accountability campaigns, front line communities impacted by fossil fuel leasing, grassroots support networks across the country, and coordinating support for the national working group effort to end the federal fossil fuel leasing program–keep it in the ground.

Ruth started working on tar sands by supporting community air projects in the Peace River region in Canada and to frontline communities in Detroit and East Chicago.