(He/Him) Ben Beachy is vice president of industrial policy at the BlueGreen Alliance (BGA). Ben has worked to transform economic policies for two decades in organizations fighting for climate equity, workers’ and immigrants’ rights, racial justice, and public health.

Ben joined BGA after seven years at the Sierra Club, where he founded the Living Economy program to build cross-movement backing for investment, trade, procurement, and industrial policies that simultaneously create good jobs, tackle climate change, and curb racial, economic, and gender inequity. Ben received a master’s in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He hails from West Virginia, has Mennonite roots, and lives in Washington, DC.