Internationally-recognized advocate and speaker Dominic Frongillo made history at age 22 by becoming the youngest person ever elected to serve on the Town Council in Caroline, New York.
An award-winning changemaker, in 2015, Frongillo co-founded Elected Officials to Protect America, a nonpartisan network organizing more than 2,000 state and local lawmakers in all 50 states to protect the environment and fight the climate crisis.
Frongillo and his work have appeared in more than 1,000 stories in major international news media including CNN, New York Times, and BBC News.
In 2012, when fracking threatened New York State, Frongillo founded Elected Officials to Protect New York, a successful bipartisan initiative of more than 1,000 lawmakers that helped win New York’s statewide ban on fracking and advance clean energy, inspiring governments worldwide to ban fracking.
Internationally-recognized for his work on climate change and clean energy, Frongillo is trained by Al Gore and served under Governor David Paterson on New York’s Climate Action Plan advisory panel.
Frongillo is a published author and a national trainer for Local Progress, Young Elected Officials Network, and Front Line Leaders Academy.
Frongillo appeared in Dear Governor Cuomo, the 2012 documentary featuring Natalie Merchant, Mark Ruffalo, Melissa Leo and that invited New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to join the movement to protect New Yorkers from fracking.
In 2018, Frongillo was awarded the inaugural Roddenberry Fellowship alongside Occupy Wall Street founder Micah White and Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza.
Author Jeff Thigpen has named Frongillo one of America’s 16 most notable young elected leaders.
A sought-after speaker, Frongillo was a keynote speaker at AASHE and ICLEI, and frequently speaks on dozens of top universities and Ivy League campuses for Earth Month and Campus Sustainability Month, including Brown, Cornell, Richmond, Furman, and Colgate.
His clients have included United World Colleges, Earth Day New York, and The Wild Center.
With his partner Simone and daughter Marelle, he lives part time in Freiburg, Germany’s Green City, where he consults in sustainability and teaches American politics at Freiburg University.
“Extremely engaging, the best of our speaker series. Students stayed for more than two hours afterwards asking challenging questions and debating. Highly recommended!” – United World Colleges
