Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD

Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned climate activist and thought leader. Her work helps people face the frightening, painful truths of the climate emergency and empowers all of us to transform despair into effective "emergency mode" action.  

Margaret was executive director of Climate Emergency Fund from 2021-2026, leading transformative growth in the organization and its impact, raising more than $23 million dollars and making $18 million in grants during her tenure. Margaret is the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth (2023), a radical self-help guide that features Climate Emergency Fund and its grantees. 

Margaret founded The Climate Mobilisation in 2014 which advocates a WWII-scale response to the climate emergency. Under her leadership, The Climate Mobilization launched the Climate Emergency Declaration campaign, which went viral on a global scale in 2019.