"Ninety percent of the skills I’ve needed to be an effective lobbyist
and executive director I learned as a canvasser." -Carrie Doyle
Carrie Doyle
is the Executive Director of Colorado Conservation Voters, which was
founded in 1998 with the sole purpose of electing environmental
candidates to state and local offices. Between 2004 and 2006, Ms.
Doyle served as the environmental community lobbyist for the Colorado
Environmental Coalition. Prior to joining CEC, Carrie worked with the
League of Conservation Voters where she ran programs to increase voter
turnout, train environmental leaders, and foster strategic
environmental campaigns throughout the Southwest. Ms. Doyle began
working on public interest issues as a summer canvasser for the Fund in
1988 and 1989, while she attended college. After graduating from
Stanford University in 1990, Ms. Doyle joined the Fund’s full time
staff as a canvass director in Santa Barbara. She continued to direct
offices in Miami and then Atlanta until 1992, when she became the
National Canvass Administrative Assistant. In 1995, Ms. Doyle moved
back to Santa Barbara to become the Executive Assistant to the Chairman
of the Board of the Fund, a position she held for five years. Her
final position with the Fund and the PIRGs was as the Alumni
Organizer. After leaving the PIRGs, Ms. Doyle worked on campaigns
around a WA statewide transit ballot campaign and to protect roadless
areas in Colorado. In 2003 Carrie was named Sierra Club ' s
Professional Activist of the Year and in 2006 was nominated by Governor
Owens to the Wildlife Habitat Stamp Committee.