Climate progress starts with courageous public leadership.

Stories, strategy, and practical support for public leaders and partners advancing environmental justice and a fair, fossil-free future.

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Listen deeply.

Lead with values.

Turn courage into action.

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The work ahead

Leadership that meets the moment.

Climate solutions last when they are grounded in justice, built with communities, and carried by leaders willing to act before change feels easy.

Environmental justice

Center frontline knowledge, public health, and shared prosperity in the decisions that shape our communities.

Fossil-fuel phase-out

Build durable public will for a fair transition from fossil fuels to resilient, affordable clean energy.

Democratic leadership

Help public leaders communicate through division, earn trust, and turn values into meaningful collective action.

From local action to national impact

A model born in New York.

In 2012, as fracking threatened communities across New York, Dominic co-founded Elected Officials to Protect New York—a bipartisan initiative that brought together more than 1,000 state and local lawmakers in support of statewide action.

He later helped carry that organizing model nationwide. The lesson remains clear: elected officials can change what is politically possible when they connect across geography, party, and level of government around shared values.

2005

Elected locally

Became the youngest person elected to the Town Council in Caroline, New York.

1,000+

Leaders united

Organized a bipartisan coalition of New York elected officials to win fracking ban and nation-leading climate laws.

50 states

A national model

Helped grow the work into a nationwide network of state and local public leaders.

Work together

Support leaders from inspiration to action.

Speaking

Keynotes and conversations that replace climate paralysis with purpose, possibility, and a practical path forward.

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Advising

Strategic support for leaders and organizations navigating climate policy, coalition-building, public narrative, and political change.

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Partnerships

Collaboration across movements, institutions, and borders to strengthen public leadership for a just transition.

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What leaders say

Dominic’s keynote was extremely engaging—the best of our speaker series.

Helen White Deputy Rector, United World Colleges

“He’s lived being a change agent. He’s fantastic.”

John Pumilio, Colgate University

“Incredibly empowering and motivating.”

Alec Williams, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Public servant · Organizer · Speaker

About Dominic

Experience rooted in public service.

Dominic Frongillo is a former New York elected official, climate organizer, speaker, and co-founder of Elected Officials to Protect New York and later helped grow its impact nationwide and beyond.

Trained by Al Gore and a former member of New York’s Climate Action Plan advisory panel, Dominic has worked with elected leaders from the local to the global level. His work has been featured by CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and BBC News. He was an inaugural Roddenberry Fellow and has spoken at universities, institutions, and climate gatherings in the United States and internationally.

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