Katie Redford is the Executive Director of the Equation Campaign. From the Equation Campaign’s About page:

The Equation Campaign is a new ten-year funding initiative working to bring about a safe and just future by enhancing the power of movements to keep oil and gas in the ground.

The science is irrefutable: to avert the worst effects of the climate crisis, carbon emissions must be cut in half by 2030. While supporting the rapid growth of renewables and energy efficiency is essential, this support cannot solve the climate problem alone. There is a missing piece of the equation: stopping oil and gas at the source.

We will keep it in the ground by funding movements on the ground. We center and amplify voices of people on the frontlines, for whom the expansion of the oil and gas industry is a matter of life and death. This includes young people fighting for their future, indigenous people defending their land and water, farmers protecting their crop, black and brown communities living in the shadow of the industry’s operations, and poor people who are not responsible for global warming but who bear the brunt of its effects. Yet the truth is that in the climate crisis, we are all on the frontline; none of us can escape the impacts of climate change. Together, we can avert the worst of it.

The Equation Campaign supports the climate movement by funding resistance on the ground and diminishing the industry’s sources of financial support. We also make grants for strategic litigation and the legal defense of activists. And we work to revoke the industry’s social license by countering its deception and unmasking its deceit.

She is a Co-Founder of EarthRights International. She is a graduate of Colgate University and the University of Virginia School of Law, where she received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Human Rights and Public Service. She is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Massachusetts State Bar. She has served as counsel to plaintiffs in our various lawsuits, including the landmark case Doe v. Unocal. Katie received an Echoing Green Fellowship in 1995 to establish EarthRights.

Katie is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Virginia and the Washington College of Law at American University, and also serves on the boards of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), and the Slingshot Development Fund. She also serves on the Advisory Board of True Costs Initiative and the Legal Advisory Board of Free Speech for People.

She has published on various issues associated with human rights and corporate accountability. In 2006, she was selected as an Ashoka Global Fellow. Katie was a 2007 Rockwood Leadership Fellow and received the Riesenfeld Award at Berkeley College’s School of Law in 2018. Most recently, Katie was named a 2018 Bellagio Fellow. Katie has been profiled in a variety of media including the books Be Bold and Your America: Democracy’s Local Heroes, and the award-winning documentary film Total Denial.