As Executive Director of reThink Green Rebecca Danard is passionate about finding collaborative solutions to environmental challenges. With extensive experience in non-profit leadership, project management, and community engagement, she built reThink Green from being the only paid to staff to the current staff team. Since coming to reThink Green in 2014, Rebecca attracted new programs (Green Economy North, Smart Green Communities, Shared Platforms, Commuter Challenge), funders (Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Independent Electricity Systems Operator, Eco Canada, Environmental Defence) and partners (Clean Air Sudbury, Plastic-Free Greater Sudbury, Greater Sudbury Food Policy Council) to reThink Green. She has represented reThink Green at the Green Economy Learning Network (2019-2020), State of the North (2019) and Renewable Cities conference (2017). Under her leadership reThink Green received the Innovation Award from Green Communities Canada in 2016 and the Environment Community Builders Award from Northern Life in 2019. Also interested in education, Rebecca mentors staff, interns, and academic placements at reThink Green. Rebecca communicates effectively and bilingually with staff, clients, volunteers, board members, and the media. Trained in the Art of Hosting, Rebecca uses personal practice, dialogue, facilitation and the co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges. Rebecca is slowly growing a fruit tree orchard and loves teaching her young sons about the plants and animals on their rural property in Wahnapitae.