Wendy Abrams is an American environmental activist and the founder of Cool Globes. In 2010 she was designated a Women's History Month

Women's History Month

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 Honoree by the National Women's History Project

National Women's History Project

The National Women's History Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring and preserving women's history. Based out of Santa Rosa, California since 1980, it was started by women's history activists Molly Murphy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas, Paula Hammett and Bette...

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She grew up in Highland Park

Highland Park, Illinois

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. She graduated from Brown University

Brown University

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 and from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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 with an MBA. She was Medline Industries

Medline Industries

Medline Industries, Inc., based in Mundelein, Illinois, is a manufacturer and distributor of health care supplies. Customers include hospitals, physicians' offices, extended care facilities, and dialysis centers....

' director of corporate communications. She has been a member of the Environmental Defense Fund's National Council since 2002. She is on the board of the Natural Resources Defense Council

Natural Resources Defense Council

The Natural Resources Defense Council is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing...

, the Union of Concerned Scientists

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Union of Concerned Scientists is a nonprofit science advocacy group based in the United States. The UCS membership includes many private citizens in addition to professional scientists. James J...

, the Sierra Club

Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...

, Waterkeeper Alliance

Waterkeeper Alliance

Waterkeeper Alliance is an environmental organization founded in 1999, responding to a growing movement of organizations with the name Riverkeeper, Baykeeper, Soundkeeper, and other related "keeper" names, of which there are over 150 around the globe...

, and The Field Museum. In 2007, she organized "Cool Globes" in Chicago

Chicago

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. She is married to Jim Abrams; they have four children.

External links

• Cool Globes website