Ben came on board with Climos in July of 2006, just over a month after receiving his BA in International Relations from Stanford University. At Stanford, he was a co-founding member of the Roosevelt Institution, the country's first student-run policy think tank. He ran the Environment and Energy branch of the organization, which now has chapters at over 150 college campuses.

Ben was born and raised on the campus of an environmental science boarding school and organic farm in Vermont, and is an avid traveller. He has lived and travelled extensively in West Africa, worked on archaeological digs in the Roman forum and in rural Sicily, and lived in Paris to study political science.

In addition to Climos, Ben works with Act Now, a progressive media strategy firm in San Francisco's Potrero Hill area. Click here to read the NY Times' coverage of that project.

Ben's passions include hiking, skiing, writing and drumming, and he resides in San Francisco.