Fletcher, an Episcopal priest, is a founding member of the Shine Campaign and serves as its interim Executive Director. He is Executive Director of GreenFaith, an international interfaith environmental organization.  Fletcher has developed a range of innovative programs to make GreenFaith a global leader in the religious-environmental movement.

In the past four years, he coordinated the 2015 OurVoices campaign, which mobilized religious support globally for COP 21, led organizing of faith communities for the People’s Climate Marches in NYC and Washington DC, helped lead the faith-based fossil fuel divestment movement, supported the launch of the global Interfaith Rainforest Initiative, and co-founded Shine, a faith-philanthropy-NGO campaign to end energy poverty with renewable energy by 2030.  He helps lead GreenFaith’s new local organizing initiative, creating multi-faith GreenFaith Circles in communities globally.

Fletcher accepted GreenFaith’s Many Faith’s, One Earth Award from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2009 and was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2011.  He is the author of GreenFaith: Mobilizing God’s People to Protect the Earth (Abingdon Press, 2015).

Mark joined the Shine Campaign in 2018 as Managing Director of Investments.  Prior to joining Shine, Mark was Director of Impact Investing at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. Mark’s background includes leadership positions in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

He has over 20 years of experience in the investment management industry, including a Partner and Member of the Management Committee at Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management (NACM) a global investment management firm. At NACM he led business units and was Lead Portfolio Manager for both traditional equity and alternative hedge fund investment strategies. NACM has since been purchased by Allianz Global Advisors.

Mark began his career with IBM. He earned his Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from Loyola Law School, and B.S. and B.A. degrees from Loyola Marymount University. Mark has also enrolled in graduate studies at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, involving complex emergencies, refugee healthcare and environmental studies.

Emira Woods is a consultant, strategist, researcher, and advocate specializing in social impact and innovation. Originally from Liberia, Emira led ThoughtWorks’ efforts to bring more robust technology solutions to the Ebola crisis. She has also held positions at the Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam America and InterAction.

Emira is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Trustee of the Wallace Global Fund, and board member of Action Aid International. She also serves on the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, Africa Council, the Advisory Board of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars and is a member of the International Working Group for Africans Rising, a network of African social movements working to build peace, seek justice and manifest dignity.

Emira completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science at Columbia University and her graduate studies in Political Economy and Government at Harvard.

Sandra joined the Shine Campaign as the Director of Program and Philanthropic Engagement in 2020. She has four decades of experience working on global sustainable development issues with international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), bilateral donors, and multilateral institutions. Prior to joining Shine, Sandra was a program officer at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation for 20 years, managing its global development finance and energy access portfolios as part of its Environment Program. Over the years, she managed and expanded the grantmaking portfolio to address energy and infrastructure financing by public development finance institutions, including the World Bank Group, Asian development finance institutions, and the African Development Bank. She developed and managed the Foundation’s energy access grantmaking over the past decade, which focused on creating solutions for the development of African-owned and led companies that provide off-grid renewable energy for poor rural communities.

Sandra has an extensive background in public policy related to international development and the environment. Before joining the Mott Foundation, Sandra worked with U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), providing policy analysis and advice on trade and investment as well as broad sustainable development issues in numerous multilateral forums. She also worked with a range of national and international NGOs, developing strategies to advocate for U.S., European and international policies on sustainable development.