Sharon Pillar is global warming outreach Coordinator for western Pennsylvania for PennFuture.
Through the CoolPennsylvania campaign, she works with citizens, organizations, faith groups and businesses, educating and mobilizing people to support initiatives to slow global warming in Pennsylvania.
Pillar was one of a thousand people trained directly by Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore through the Climate Initiative to present the slide show used in the Oscar winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth. She has spoken about global warming with more than 60 organizations in western Pennsylvania.
After 15 years in the pharmaceutical research industry, Pillar decided to pursue a career that better matched her passion. She completed a graduate degree in Earth Literacy with a focus on regional equity and sustainable communities from St. Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Pillar served two years as the co-chair of the Regional Equity Task Force for the Pittsburgh Interfaith Impact Network. Pillar was also a co-founder of Communities First!, a community group organized to advocate for sustainable development on the Route 65 corridor west of Pittsburgh, and she volunteered as a land steward for the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.
Pillar is a member of the Sewickley Borough Planning Commission and serves on the board of the Mary Roberts Rinehart Nature Park.
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