With sadness and best wishes, the CCAN staff will say goodbye this month to an extraordinary member of our family: Anne Havemann. Barely out of college, Anne began working for CCAN five years ago as an executive assistant and quickly rose to become our communications director for the past three years. During her tenure, Anne has given as much heart and soul and sweat to the climate movement as anyone on the planet. For five straight winters she jumped into the Chesapeake Bay as part of our annual “Polar Bear Plunge.” She was such a fierce opponent of dirty coal in Maryland that former Republican Gov. Bob Ehrlich directed the state police to illegally spy on her (true story). She melted away with the rest of us during summertime rallies on Capitol Hill and she had her eyelashes turn white during a snowstorm rally for clean energy in Annapolis. But mostly we at CCAN will remember Anne for accidentally setting on fire a small bouquet of flowers during a CCAN fundraiser in Silver Spring, MD. The carbon emissions!

In late August Anne will become a student at the University of Maryland Law School in Baltimore with the goal of becoming an environmental lawyer of great global renown one day.

Anne: We already miss you so much it hurts. You made CCAN a great place to work and be happy despite the great storminess of climate change.

With great love and respect, we say so long for now.

The CCAN Staff