Dominic Frongillo
As a powerful role model for how ordinary citizens and young people can make a difference, former young elected official and award-winning changemaker Dominic Frongillo will:
- INSPIRE YOUR AUDIENCE for a life of leadership with stories of ordinary people around the world making a difference on global challenges
- EMPOWER YOUR EVENT with a keynote on leadership, sustainability, and social change
- TRAIN YOUR LEADERS with strategies and tools to be agents of change
Your audience will come away from your event:
- inspired and empowered to make a positive difference your team, campus, organization, and community
- moved to action by a powerful passionate call to step up to our global challenges
- know that change is possible and the strategies to achieve it
- get clear on their unique role for making a difference now
- committed to a life of action and public service
Internationally-recognized and award-winning former elected official and changemaker Dominic Frongillo made history at age 22 by becoming the youngest person to serve on the Town Council in Caroline, New York.
A five-time delegate to the United Nations, in 2012, Frongillo founded Elected Officials to Protect New York, a successful bipartisan initiative of over 850 elected officials across the state that helped win New York's statewide ban on fracking.
Award-winning for his work in climate change and clean energy, Frongillo is trained by Al Gore, served under Governor Paterson on New York's Climate Change Action Plan advisory council, and is a board director for Black Oak Wind Farm, New York State's first community-owned wind farm.
Selected as an inaugural 2018 Roddenberry Fellow, Dominic is a finalist for the national Barbara Jordan Leadership Award and appeared in the documentary Dear Governor Cuomo. Author Jeff Thigpen named Frongillo one of America's 16 most notable young elected leaders.
A frequent keynote speaker, Frongillo has spoken on five continents and for dozens of ivy-league and top universities such as Brown, Cornell, and Furman on topics of climate change, sustainability, and social change. A national keynote for Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) student summit, he is a sought-after speaker for Earth Day, Earth Week, Sustainability Week, cities and local governments, college campuses and higher education, youth and students, and green, sustainable development, and environment events.
As a powerful role model for how ordinary citizens and young people can make a difference, former young elected official and award-winning changemaker Dominic Frongillo will:
- INSPIRE YOUR AUDIENCE for a life of leadership with stories of ordinary people around the world making a difference on global challenges
- EMPOWER YOUR EVENT with a keynote on leadership, sustainability, and social change
- TRAIN YOUR LEADERS with strategies and tools to be agents of change
Your audience will come away from your event:
- inspired and empowered to make a positive difference your team, campus, organization, and community
- moved to action by a powerful passionate call to step up to our global challenges
- know that change is possible and the strategies to achieve it
- get clear on their unique role for making a difference now
- committed to a life of action and public service
Internationally-recognized and award-winning former elected official and changemaker Dominic Frongillo made history at age 22 by becoming the youngest person to serve on the Town Council in Caroline, New York.
A five-time delegate to the United Nations, in 2012, Frongillo founded Elected Officials to Protect New York, a successful bipartisan initiative of over 850 elected officials across the state that helped win New York's statewide ban on fracking.
Award-winning for his work in climate change and clean energy, Frongillo is trained by Al Gore, served under Governor Paterson on New York's Climate Change Action Plan advisory council, and is a board director for Black Oak Wind Farm, New York State's first community-owned wind farm.
Selected as an inaugural 2018 Roddenberry Fellow, Dominic is a finalist for the national Barbara Jordan Leadership Award and appeared in the documentary Dear Governor Cuomo. Author Jeff Thigpen named Frongillo one of America's 16 most notable young elected leaders.
A frequent keynote speaker, Frongillo has spoken on five continents and for dozens of ivy-league and top universities such as Brown, Cornell, and Furman on topics of climate change, sustainability, and social change. A national keynote for Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) student summit, he is a sought-after speaker for Earth Day, Earth Week, Sustainability Week, cities and local governments, college campuses and higher education, youth and students, and green, sustainable development, and environment events.
How Young People are Winning a Just & Sustainable Future
Description:
- Internationally-recognized environmental advocate Dominic Frongillo will share his story as one of the youngest-ever elected officials in the United States and 5-time delegate to UN climate talks
- Stories of how young people around the world are leading grassroots movements to solve climate change
- Inspiring stories from the...
Strategic Leadership & Changemaker Skills
Description:
- Dynamic, highly-interactive workshops will hone your students' leadership skills to create change in your school and beyond
- How to strategize for change, identify strategic goals, develop a campaign plan, execute, build power, and succeed
- Students will learn skills that will serve them throughout life and are key...
Classroom Talks
- How Young People Can Make an Impact in the World Beyond School
- Global Innovation & Solutions: Food, Water, Mobility, and Clean Energy
- Life as a Delegate: Inside the UN Climate Negotiations
- Sustainability & MDGs in Action: Germany's Greenest City Freiburg
- What is Driving America's Changing Politics & How it Impacts Europe
- Life in Public Service & How to Engage Your...
Teacher Workshops
Description:
- Interactive workshop for educators from international schools to exchange with peers and colleagues who share a passion for social justice and environmental teaching
- Focus on climate justice in curriculum and activities inside and outside the classroom that introduce students to complex concepts on climate change, critical thinking, and stories from the front lines
- Participants will come away with...
Student Leadership Mentorship & Coaching
Description:
- Exclusive opportunity for elite leadership mentoring and coaching by a renown former elected official and change agent locally to globally
- Full hour of personal 1-to-1 strategy coaching and mentorship to selected student leaders or groups on action plans and projects
- Extend the benefits of your programs far beyond the initial event
Student Action Toolkits
- Opportunity for students to practice leadership skills learned in Summit workshops far into the future
- Concise, easily readable action toolkit to help student leaders organize their schools and foster participation for their climate action plans
- Guide excellent for a range of projects and initiatives in their schools, community and beyond
