Benji Backer

Visiting Fellow, Energy
Benji Backer is the Executive Chairman and Founder of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), and the author of The Conservative Environmentalist: Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future.
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Benji Backer is the Executive Chairman and Founder of the American Conservation Coalition (ACC), the country’s largest conservative youth environmental organization, and the author of The Conservative Environmentalist: Common Sense Solutions for a Sustainable Future. His newest venture is co-founding and chairing Nature is Nonpartisan.

A graduate of the University of Washington, Benji has been named a NYTimes Changemaker, and awarded the Fortune 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30, and GreenBiz 30 Under 30. He is a fellow at The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) and Arizona State University, and Benji is one of the leading youth environmental voices in the country. Above all, Backer is an avid outdoorsman who spends most of his free time in the mountains out West.