Career
In 2011, she became the executive director of the Point Reyes National Seashore Association in the San Francisco Bay area. Previously she served as president of the The H. John Heinz III Center Foreign Science, Economics And The Environment, a Washington, District of Columbia, nonprofit institution dedicated to improving the scientific and economic foundation for environmental policy. Callahan is the immediate past president of the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), where she served as president for ten years.
Prior to her work at LCV, she served as the founding executive director for the Brainerd Foundation and was a Program Officer for the West. Alton Jones Foundation, both prominent environmental grant making foundations.
She has worked in advocacy organizations and on Capitol Hill, including the National Clean Air Coalition, the National Toxics Campaign and in the United States Senate. Callahan has also managed and staffed numerous electoral campaigns including the presidential campaigns of Vice Presidents First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore and Walter Mondale, and campaigns for Senator Kent Conrad, Congressman Howard Wolpe and Congressman George Brown.
She has served on numerous boards of directors, including America Votes, the Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues, World Resources Institute and the Earth Day Network. A nationally known spokesperson and media commentator on environmental and progressive political issues, Callahan was the first environmental organizational representative to address the Democratic National Convention (2004).
She graduated in 1981 from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Environmental Studies and Political Science.
Executive Director (1995–1996), Brainerd Foundation
Program Officer (1992–1994), West. Alton Jones Foundation
Policy Consultant (1991–1992), National Toxics Campaign
Campaign Manager (1990–1991), Wolpe congressional campaign
National Field Director (1987–1988), Gore presidential primary campaign
Executive Assistant (1986–1987), Office of Senator Kent Conrad
New England political director (1985–1986), League of Conservation Voters
Deputy Campaign Manager (1986), Conrad senatorial campaign
Field Coordinator (1984), Mondale-Ferraro presidential campaign.
