Dave Cortez Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Texas, United States

• Advise and support Sierra Club Chapter, national campaigns, and regional groups in centering equity, justice, movement building and base building in their respective scopes of work.
• Convene Sierra Club staff and partners in development of a data-informed power analysis for Sierra Club’s climate and clean energy work in Texas.
• Support national and chapter teams in identifying opportunities to collaborate and break down historical silos in our work.
• Launch and support Chapter Democracy program and statewide C3 coordinating and movement building table for oil, gas, and petrochemical organizations and activists across Texas.
• Convene and support Texas staff and volunteer leadership in development of a strategy and plan to address the environmental community’s legacy of racism and white supremacy in Texas.
• Developed member and activist training program for 87th session of the Texas Legislature.

Texas, United States

• Support Texas based organizers in Dallas, Houston, and the Rio Grande Valley with advice, guidance, strategy and their development as movement organizers.
• Coordinate with managers of staff in other departments to ensure organizing goals & strategies are aligned with various departmental and campaign goals.
• Ensure organizers managed budgets in alignment with Sierra Club values, principles, and competing resource demands.
• Advocate and provide support for adoption and incorporation of JEMEZ principles, anti-racist values, and movement organizing into all departments’ work at Sierra Club.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration and coordination between organizers.
• Support Advancement Team in fundraising pitches, grant proposal writing, and donor relationship management.

Austin, Texas Area

• Design and coordinate Lone Star Chapter campaign for non-border cities/activists opposing the expansion of the border wall.
• Organized, designed in partnership, and executed Dirty Fuels campaigns with volunteer activists in West Texas, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline and North American.
• Organized volunteer activists in West Texas, Central Texas, and San Antonio in opposition to coal-fired power plants responsible for significant haze, air, and water pollution.
• Organized, designed in partnership, and executed coal-to-clean-energy campaign called Austin Beyond Coal, which focused on supporting a volunteer-led effort to reduce Austin Energy’s fossil fuel footprint and replace.
• Incorporated values of equity, anti-racism, justice and democracy into Texas Sierra Club operations, including campaigns for equitable parks and green space, equitable access to clean energy, and several movement.
• Coordinated federal defense campaigns in support of wind energy tax credits and in opposition to regressive trade programs.

Austin, Texas

• Coordinated coalition made up of labor, environmental, faith, and community organizations that were advocating for clean economy, worker safety, and equitable hiring & job training policies at the city, state and.
• Organized cross-issue movement trainings across Texas that focused on building solidarity from a base of shared values between labor and environmental activists.
• Mobilized activists in support of labor strikes, contract negotiations, legislative votes, and community events.
• Organized broad based labor-community-environmental coalition focused on winning just building codes in Texas cities.
• Lobbied city, state, and federal administrative and elected officials on policy like clean energy mandates, city green building codes paired with living wage and local hire requirements, and policies in opposition to.

El Paso, Texas, United States

• Managed field team of 11 canvassers tasked with door-to-door campaign outreach.
• Prepared outreach materials, gauged and reported voter feedback, assigned canvassing turf, & trained new staff.
• Coordinated volunteer outreach to various student, civic, and activist organizations.

El Paso, Texas, United States

• Coordinated volunteer outreach and mentoring to several civic, student, and government organizations.
• Researched, identified, and developed canvassing sites for countywide voters registration drive.
• Managed office staff of twenty-two canvassers and administrative personnel with over 75 % staff retention.
• Program responsible for over 4,500 new voter registrations between July and August 2008.
• Drafted application for and received $28,500 private grant for salary, paid staff, and transportation costs.---
• Lead organizer in the Clean Air, Clean Soils campaign against the reopening of the ASARCO copper smelter.