Led by Cara Pike, Social Capital Strategies draws on the expertise of communications professionals across the United States and Canada. Our hired guns are specialists in strategic communications planning, narrative and framing, public opinion trends, media and public relations, advocacy campaigning, digital communications, social science research and more.

CARA PIKE

Cara Pike is one of North America’s leading climate and environmental communicators, researchers, strategists and trainers. With more than two decades of experience developing campaigns that grow public support for environmental policies and action, Cara’s expertise is sought-after by climate practitioners, non-profit organizations and government agencies across the continent including the Obama Administration, Union of Concerned Scientists and Clean Energy Canada. Her studies on environmental engagement are guiding hundreds of organizations on how to frame sustainability issues and promote behavior change. Cara is the founder and executive director of Climate Access, a non-profit organization providing communications and behavior change research and training to a network of more than 2,000 climate leaders in 57 countries.

As the former Vice President of Communications for the leading nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice, Cara pioneered innovative programs that used communications and public engagement to leverage and sustain the organization’s legal victories. With a graduate degree in environmental science and communications, Cara has a deep understanding of environmental issues and how they intersect with cultural trends and concerns. She speaks regularly on green marketing and social change and serves on the boards of Resource Media and the Hollyhock Educational Foundation. 

To learn more about Cara or obtain a copy of her full CV, please contact us.

MICHELLE BONNER

Michelle Bonner is the former Vice President and Training Manager at Climate Smart, an award- winning social enterprise and certified B Corp. For nearly ten years Michelle led the design and delivery of Climate Smart’s training and certification program to help small and medium-sized enterprises measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Michelle has personally trained more than 600 businesses and organizations, and has delivered the Climate Smart program on behalf of local governments, Port of Vancouver, Vancouver International Airport, and other partners to engage their business tenants, members, and communities.

Michelle has facilitated focus groups, roundtable discussions and other stakeholder events convening small and medium-sized enterprises on behalf of partners such as Environment and Climate Change Canada, BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, and Metro Vancouver. Prior to her time with Climate Smart, Michelle worked in the environmental non-profit sector in Canada and the U.S., for organizations such as Earthjustice, Evergreen, Ecojustice, and Ecotrust Canada. She holds a BA in English Literature and Environmental Studies from McGill University and in 2012 certified as a Greenhouse Gas Inventory Quantifier (CSA Group).