Zimyl Adler

Zimyl Adler is a Senior Forest, Land & Climate Finance Policy Advocate with Friends of the Earth. They advocate for policies and regulatory solutions that pressure the world’s largest financial institutions to stop investing in deforestation, and mobilize to uphold land defenders’ human rights. For over 15 years, Zimyl has organized at the intersection of food, water, land and climate. They’ve worked locally and globally with frontline communities, agroecologists, and land defenders, including from Haiti, Honduras, and across the African continent. Before joining FoE, Zimyl was Organizing Co-Director for Pesticide Action Network, where they led winning campaigns to stop the agrochemical industry’s corporate capture of the UN and adopt policy instruments to phase out the most toxic pesticides. Prior, they led anti-oppression political education and direct-action solidarity campaigns for Community Alliance for Global Justice; and reported on the multinational hydropower industry’s web of corruption for International Rivers and the Borneo Project. They have a B.A. from Bennington College and a long list of popular education trainings. Zimyl enjoys making art for the queer revolution, and plays clarinet in a Klezmer band, Shpilkis, in Seattle.

AGRA Watch: Messengers of Gates’ Agenda: A Case Study of the Cornell Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellows Program
Pesticide Action Network: Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry’s Deepening Influence on Global Food Governance