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About Institute for America's Future
Leadership
Robert L. Borosage
Co-Director
Robert L. Borosage is the co-director of the Institute for America’s Future. Previously, Borosage founded and directed the Campaign for New Priorities, a nonprofit organization calling for post-Cold War reinvestment in America. He is the author of “The Next Agenda: Blueprint for a New Progressive Movement.” Borosage’s work has appeared in a number of mainstream and progressive publications, and he is a frequent television and radio commentator. In 1988, he was senior issues advisor to the presidential campaign of Rev. Jesse Jackson. He has also served as an issues advisor to many progressive political campaigns, including those of Senators Carol Moseley Braun, Barbara Boxer, and Paul Wellstone.
Roger Hickey
Co-Director
Roger Hickey is a founder and co-director of the Institute for America’s Future. He was also one of the founders of Americans United to Protect Social Security, a coalition of citizen leaders representing consumers, workers, women, seniors, young people, civil rights advocates, and community activists—united to strengthen Social Security and Medicare. Americans United is now working on Medicare prescription drugs and other issues. Hickey also helped found the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a Washington think tank that looks at economics from the point of view of working Americans. Hickey served as EPI’s vice president and director of communications. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Hickey began his career in the 1960s as an organizer for the Virginia Civil Rights Committee and the Southern Students’ Organizing Committee.
Organization’s Objective
Our country and the whole earth face major challenges stemming from our dependence on expensive carbon-based energy systems. Transforming our global energy production systems will require bold changes in the way we organize our entire society. Yet while the conservative movement that has dominated our politics over the past quarter century has never been more powerful or more bankrupt, it has succeeded in polarizing US politics and in reducing Americans’ faith in the ability of the public sector to do big things. Right wing forces have also learned to effectively divide Americans who should be united, making big change difficult.
For years conservatives and corporate forces have successfully convinced working people that action to protect the environment eliminates jobs and acts as a drag on prosperity. As long as this trade-off vision of the environment and the economy prevailed, progress on all environmental fronts was difficult to impossible. But the good news is that a bold vision for retooling the economy to achieve energy efficiency and sustainability has begun to be seen by working Americans (and Americans who would like to be working) as the best way to achieve growth and create jobs that we can count on for generations to come.
One of the trademark victories of IAF was the establishment of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition on nontraditional allies from business, labor, environmental and social justice groups who came together in 2003 to launch a bold initiative on investment in renewable energy. The benefits of investing in an Apollo-like program are compelling. Our vision is a program that not only reinvigorates our economy with the creation of the next generation of renewable energy technology jobs, but enhances national security, reduces dependence on foreign oil and promotes the use of clean energy.
* Organizations with 501(c)3 legal status engage exclusively in non-partisan education and civic engagement activities.
Quick Facts
Contact Info
ourfuture.org 1825 K Street NW
Suite 400
Washington, DC
20006
1 202-955-5665
Energy Independence and Environment
