A note from Corporate Accountability Board Chair Akinbode Oluwafemi:

Dear Friend,

After an exceptional tenure as executive director, Patti Lynn will be moving into a new role at Corporate Accountability by the end of 2024. The board of directors is grateful for the ample time that Patti has provided to execute this transition -- and we are thrilled that she will be staying on as an organizer and fundraiser.

It is yet another example of how Patti has led Corporate Accountability: with profound thoughtfulness and a commitment to the mission to challenge corporate power, putting the day-to-day organizing and its impact over ego or personal gain.

As executive director, Patti has built the organization’s capacity to be a powerful force for change. Through the tumultuous years of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, she’s led the organization in strengthening our financial position, advancing racial equity, distributing leadership, and mobilizing power and resources behind the vision of Global South organizers challenging transnational corporations. Throughout it all, she has steered Corporate Accountability to wage campaigns in ways that align with our values, operate in solidarity within a broader movement context, and have the maximum impact.

Under Patti’s exemplary leadership, Corporate Accountability underwent significant cultural and practical shifts. Today, our work and mission to end the life-threatening abuses of corporations and advance justice is stewarded by the whole organization, not just by a few leaders. We are a strong, stable, and evolving organization, able to meet the demands and opportunities that these times ask of us.

With all this in mind, the board is committed to a thoughtful, thorough, and transparent process -- already under way -- of finding the next executive leadership. The board has hired Strategies for Social Change to manage this process. We have great confidence in their experience, track record, and alignment with our organizational values.

As one of the first steps, we’ve formed a Leadership Transition Committee, co-chaired by Carolina Santamaria, director of recruitment, and Sarah Hodgdon, board member and partner at The Management Center. This team of staff and board represents rising leadership, a range of tenures with the organization, and Global South perspectives. They will lead the way in to identifying Corporate Accountability’s next leadership with ample input from staff and in conversation with members, donors, and allies. So please stay tuned for the announcement about the position, coming soon. I hope you will help spread the word and send potential candidates our way.

Over the coming months we will be celebrating and honoring Patti’s achievements and dedication to the work. As someone who has spent almost two decades organizing with Patti and leading the corporate accountability movement with her, I have witnessed the quiet and formidable force that she is. So I am happy that this will not be a goodbye; simply a shift. And, on behalf of the board of directors, I want to extend our deepest gratitude for her many contributions in this role, her dedication to the mission, and to the fierce fire she brings in challenging corporate power and advancing justice.

Onward,

Akinbode Oluwafemi
Pronouns: he/him/his
Board Chair
Corporate Accountability

Read the note from Executive Director Patti Lynn on our website

As I think back on my time as executive director, I am most inspired by the people. I suppose that’s the organizer in me. In the end, Corporate Accountability is powerful because of those who make it up -- the amazing staff, board, members, and organizers and activists we partner with. I’m grateful for each of you: smart, fierce, powerful people who have been my partners in this work, who challenge me, and who helped me become the leader that I am.

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Corporate Accountability stops transnational corporations from devastating democracy, trampling human rights, and destroying our planet. We are building a world rooted in justice where corporations answer to people, not the other way around -- a world where every person has access to clean water, healthy food, a safe place to live, and the opportunity to reach their full human potential.

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