Rebecca’s Bio

Rebecca Rotzler is a Co-Chair of the Green Party of the United States (GPUS) and served as the Deputy Mayor of the Village of New Paltz, NY. She also served as the government representative to the New Paltz Central Schools District-wide Committee. As a GPUS National Committee representative for New York she has also served as a Co-chair of the GPUS Peace Action Committee.

An Alaskan Native, Rebecca Rotzler’s background greatly influences her work in human rights as well as environmental sustainability. She recently participated as a panelist at the Cornell ILR Global Labor Institute Conference: A North American Labor Assembly on Climate Crisis: Building a Global Movement for Clean Energy and was a featured speaker at the World Can’t Wait “Impeach Bush”.

Rebecca Rotzler was a founding member and President of Students for a Free Tibet at SUNY New Paltz where she has also served as a panelist for the Multicultural Conference, the African-American and the Latino Leadership Conference, the Women’s Studies Conference and the Trans-Feminism Conference. She was also a founding member of the Mid-Hudson Direct Action Network.

Rebecca Rotzler is also a member of Alternatives to Military, an organization promoting counter-military recruitment and 9/11 People Against Racism, a group formed following the 9/11 tragedies in the effort to offer assistance to targeted individuals and ensure community harmony.

Photo of Rebecca Rotzler: Steve Scher http://baysidefriend.us