Evan Weber is a movement builder, political strategist, and public policy expert from Kailua, Hawai’i. Evan co-founded the Sunrise Movement at 25 years old and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2020 for Law & Policy. As the organization's political director, he helped it grow into the largest youth climate justice organization in the country and write and advance the Green New Deal, which reshaped global climate politics and policy. That year, he helped shape the climate platforms of almost every major presidential candidate, served as a strategist and advisor for dozens of candidates for office, as a national presidential surrogate for Bernie Sanders, and architected the come-from-behind US Senate runs of Ed Markey in Massachusetts and Charles Booker in Kentucky.

Now, Evan is the managing director and co-founder of Our Hawai’i, which is building a multi-generational, multi-racial, indigenous-led political movement for a Hawai’i that puts local working families first, not big money interests. He is also policy fellow at Elemental Excelerator, a leading nonprofit climate technology investor founded in Honolulu, Hawai’i where he’s focused on expanding renewable energy and electrification to working-class and Native Hawai’ian households leveraging the investments in President Biden’s climate laws. He is the president of Sunrise Movement’s Board of Directors and also serves on the board of IfNotNow Movement in addition to Evergreen.

He was named by Grist as an “emerging U.S. green leader to watch,” by Rhize as one of 85 global “emerging catalysts” for social change, and is featured regularly in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR, and more. Most days, you can find him in his hometown of Kailua, Hawai’i paddling in the ocean, tending to his garden, biking around town, or working to ensure a just, livable, and resilient future as a local elected official.