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Ladan Sobhani is a Program Manager at Green For All where she has been building a Community of Practice to connect those engaged in green job training programs.  Members of the Community of Practice share expertise and collaborate in order to advance their own programs while contributing to the national effort to build a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.  Ladan graduated from UC Davis with a major in International Relations and minor in Environmental Economics.  Following graduation Ladan spent a life-transforming year in Venezuela teaching English and learning Spanish.  Her eye-opening travels in Latin America led her to work for two years at the International Forum on Globalization where she researched and wrote about the environmental impact of economic globalization and helped to organize large teach-ins on the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund.  Ladan went on to spend five years at the human rights organization, Global Exchange, where she worked on a variety of campaigns including:  a response to the California Energy crisis, organizing protests against the war on Iraq, and leading political fact finding delegations to Iran (the country of her birth), Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Israel.

Sessions with Ladan Sobhani:

• Green Jobs Ending Pollution & Poverty
  Green Jobs: Ending Pollution and Poverty at the Same Time