Experience

Climate Breakthrough

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• 2021 Climate Breakthrough Awardee

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  Denise Fairchild is president emeritus of Emerald Cities Collaborative and currently a ClimateBreakthrough 2021 Awardee, the largest individual award of its kind and only the second U.S. awardee to date. Her 3-year $3 million grant focuses on designing a cultural response to the root cause of climate change – unsustainable economic growth – production and consumption policies and systems. Denise Fairchild is president emeritus of Emerald Cities Collaborative and currently a ClimateBreakthrough 2021 Awardee, the largest individual award of its kind and only the second U.S. awardee to date. Her 3-year $3 million grant focuses on designing a cultural response to the root cause of climate change – unsustainable economic growth – production and consumption policies and systems.


Emerald Cities Collaborative
• United States
• Strategic Management Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• President Emeritus

  • Nov 2010 - Present

Community and Economic Development Department at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
• Founder, Chair

  • 1995 - 2008

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 500 - 600 Employee
• Director, Los Angeles

  • 1989 - 1994