Stone Ridge, NY
Trained in 2017 Colorado, mentored 9 times: 2018 Los Angeles, 2019 Atlanta, 2019 Minneapolis, July 2020 Global Training, August 2020 Global Training, 2021 US Training, 2021 Global Training, 2022 Las Vegas, 2023 IRA, Speaker at multiple trainings
Tim Guinee is the President of Climate Action Now and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on Accelerating Climate Solutions. He is the founder of The Climate Actors, serves on the Advisory Council of Riverkeeper, the Advisory Board of the Center for Earth Ethics, and the Board of Directors at the Ashokan Center (New York's oldest outdoor environmental education center). He is the official climate change liaison for the town of Marbletown, NY with the Climate Mayors, and serves as the New York Legislative-Action Director for the New York Climate Reality Chapters Coalition, as well as the co-chair of the Hudson Valley & Catskills Chapter (which he also founded). Tim has done significant work at the state level, including helping the passage of CLCPA, and has also secured dozens of local wins for the 100% Committed campaign. He has also delivered presentations for varied audiences, including conservative fire departments, Houston oil-industry executives and maximum-security inmates. For his significant contributions to Climate Reality, Tim was awarded the Alfredo Sirkis Memorial Green Ring Award by Vice-President Gore in 2020. Tim holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and later received an honorary doctorate.
Tim is an accomplished film and television actor. He is best known for his work on projects such as Horizon, The Staircase, Inventing Anna, Homeland, Hell on Wheels, The Good Wife, and Elementary, and notable film work includes Iron Man I & II, The Doors, Heaven and Earth, Two Men in Town, How to Make an American Quilt. Tim has produced events including Unheard Voices - a benefit to support the work of Doctor's Without Borders during the Rwandan genocide, held at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he produced a series of benefits to help save famous New York venues, including The Westbank Cafe, Birdland, the York Theater Company, and Philip Seymour Hoffman's LAByrinth Theater Company.
Las Vegas, NV // Newport Beach, CA
Annual Climate Reality supporter
Climate Reality Leader trained in Minneapolis in 2019, Mentor and Speaker at Las Vegas training in 2022
Shawn Harpen has led teams in legal, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations for the last 25 years. After practicing as a litigator and corporate governance attorney, and then as chief legal officer and general counsel of Patrón Spirits International AG, in 2019, she directed her focus toward addressing challenges of climate change. She became an active member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, and obtained a Public Leadership Credential from Harvard Kennedy School, as well as graduate certificates in Environmental Policy and International Development and Corporate Sustainability and Innovation from Harvard Extension School, where she is an ALM candidate in Sustainability. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of Px3 Legal Consulting Corporation, where she assists clients in governance, policy development and other legal matters, with a focus on the three components of the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profit.
Shawn serves as a member of the board of directors and chair of the audit committee for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. In addition, she is a special advisor to the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Professional Regulation, a member of the Local Rules Advisory Committee of the US District Court for the Central District of California, a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.
Woodland Hills, CA
Trained In 2017 Pittsburgh, mentored in 2018 Los Angeles, 2019 Minneapolis, July 2020 Global Training
Diana Weynand graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a bachelor's degree in Music Education. She received a Masters of Music Education and a Masters of Media Arts at the University of South Carolina. At PBS, she directed and produced the Emmy-nominated PBS series, Cinematic Eye. At ABC, she was an editor on the 1980 Olympics and ABC soap operas, One Life to Live and All My Children, and became Supervising Editor for "The Barbara Walters Special" Diana started a film and television training and consulting company, Weynand Training International, and spent many years helping operators transition to new cutting edge technology. She has authored many books, including the Apple Pro Training Series books on Final Cut Pro and "How Video Works: From Broadcast to the Cloud." Recently, Diana has brought her music front and center and has produced music shows, directed music videos and written songs placed in television shows.
Diana’s climate work has remained a central pillar of her life. Previously, Diana was Board Chair for the Earth Law Center, whose mission is to transform the law to recognize and protect nature's inherent rights to exist, thrive and evolve, and was honored with the Environmentalist of the Year award in 2022 by Asm. Jesse Gabriel of the California State Assembly. Diana also attended the COP21 Paris Climate Accord and produced documentary footage of the "International Tribunal of Crimes Against Nature." She is also the founder and current chair of the San Fernando Valley CA Chapter, and has done extensive work around Climate Reality’s previous campaign, County Climate Coalition, and currently does significant advocacy work around restoring the Sepulveda Basin (which was featured during 24 Hours of Reality 2022), waste reduction, ocean recovery and restoration of community air monitoring systems.
Somerville, MA
Trained in 2017 Washington, mentored twice, 2019 Minneapolis and July 2020 Global Training, speaker at 2019 Minneapolis (CRLC Panel)
Larry Yu is a senior editorial director in The Bridgespan Group’s Boston office. He works with Bridgespan teams as a thought partner and editor to bring research-driven insights to life for nonprofit, philanthropic, and other mission-driven audiences. Larry has also been managing editor of the Milken Institute Review, a journal of economics and public policy since it was conceived over 20 years ago. Along the way, he has been global thought leadership fellow at PwC, executive editor of strategy+business magazine, and co-founder and managing director of Kite Global Advisors, a boutique thought leadership consultancy.
Climate change is at the center of Larry’s advocacy outside of work. He chairs the City of Somerville’s Commission on Energy Use and Climate Change, trained with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, and speaks frequently on the climate crisis and its solutions. He formerly served as co-chair of the Boston Metro MA Chapter. His service on boards currently includes the Massachusetts Climate Action Network (MCAN) and the Charles River Watershed Association, and previously included the Brattle Film Foundation, as president, and Conscious Capitalism’s Boston chapter. Larry earned his bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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