Laura Turner Seydel

Laura Turner Seydel works with and supports organizations that address urgent challenges affecting the health, functionality and vitality of our life support system: our air, water, land, food, biodiversity and climate.

As chair of the Captain Planet Foundation, Laura guides the organization in its mission to work collaboratively to engage and empower young people to be problem solvers for the planet.

A watershed warrior, she co-founded the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper in 1994 and today serves on the board of the Waterkeeper Alliance. In 2004, she co-founded Mothers & Others for Clean Air, whose mission is to protect children’s health by reducing the impacts of air pollution and climate change.

She serves on the board of Project Drawdown, which focuses on measuring the top scalable solutions to address global warming. Laura also works to address the extinction crisis as a Patron of Nature with the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Other organizations she serves include the United Nations Foundation, Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Turner Endangered Species Fund. She is a member of Atlanta Rotary and serves as the current chair of the Carter Center board of councilors and on the advisory board for the Ray C. Anderson Foundation.