Our Team

The CFA team is experienced, knowledgeable, and influential.

Expertise translated into action—leveraging decades of experience in financial services, organizing, and union leadership, our team partners with key stakeholders in the public pension system to facilitate dialogue on risk mitigation and securing the economic future of workers while activating key decision-makers toward sustainable climate action at the city and state levels.

We work with an openness to the policy approach and path that is responsive to a given state’s unique dynamics, and includes the key voices that need to be heard and can make change possible.

  • Mary Ceruilli

    FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  • Danielle Fox

    ORGANIZER AND POLICY SPECIALIST

  • Natalia Daies

    STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

  • Susan Drury

    CONSULTANT

  • Mary founded Climate Finance Action in 2020 after 18 months of climate finance work in conjunction with an investor-led campaign to decarbonize the 20 largest North American electric generating utilities and efforts to press JPMorgan to replace lead independent director Lee Raymond, the former CEO of Exxon.

    Before entering the nonprofit sector, Mary worked as an analyst and consultant for over twenty years in the financial services industry. She serves on the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management (MassPRIM) Board’s Stewardship Committee and the Maryland State Retirement & Pension System (MSRPS) Climate Advisory Panel. She has an MBA from Boston University and a BA in Geology from Skidmore College. In 2022, she received the ESG Role of Directors certificate from the University of California, Berkeley.

  • With more than 20 years of experience in organizing, campaigning, and policymaking, Danielle is driven to build communities and opportunities that bring people together to strengthen their advocacy skills, examine their power, and harness their passion toward more just policies and systems. She is thrilled to join CFA to activate shareholder power and wield capital as a force for tackling climate change and advancing economic justice.

    Prior to joining CFA, Danielle worked as the campaign director with the Union of Concerned Scientists. There, she ran impactful campaigns to activate science as a force for more evidence-based, equitable policies and democratic processes-- from environmental justice and voting rights to public health regulations. She also built the UCS Science Network, a national community of 25,000 scientists and technical experts seeking training, leadership development, and action opportunities to advocate for policy change.

    Danielle also worked as the research director for the Massachusetts State Legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Service, which spearheaded policy reforms for pension and healthcare coverage. She was also the national student program coordinator for Physicians for Human Rights, where she built a network of 75+ chapters and ran campaigns for early career health professionals to advocate for health and human rights policy.

    She has an MSPA from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a BA in international development and social change from Clark University.

  • Natalia is a communications and digital strategy leader and advocate for intersectional climate justice. Her work experience in Indonesia, Uganda, and Kenya, combined with academic training, including a Master of Divinity in Community Development and a Master of Science in Strategic Communications with an emphasis in Technology Law and Policy, informs her approach to equity and storytelling. She is excited about the opportunity to mobilize stakeholders around the intersection of climate and publicly held capital to support an ethical transition to a more just economy.

  • Susan Drury is an experienced campaigner, research director, and COO. She has spent the last twenty-five years supporting and leading campaigns and organizations focused on workers’ rights, health care access, public education, and climate justice. Susan spent over fifteen years as staff and consultant at SEIU and has deep experience with the politics and finance of pension funds.

    Susan has a B.A. from Carleton College and an M.Ed. from Vanderbilt University.

Board & Advisors

  • Peggy Hanratty

    Retired, Certified Financial Analyst

  • Dr. Nathan Phillips

    Professor, Boston University

  • Beverly Ortiz

    Consultant and Organizer, Fred Ross Project 

  • Jason Disterhoft

    Senior Investor Engagement Specialist, Majority Action

  • Vonda Brunsting

    Lead for Global Capital Strategies Initiative, Center For A Just Economy

  • Tom Kuo

    Co-Founder, A-Street

  • Regina Larocque

    Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

  • Alyssa Lee

    Strategic Communications Analyst, CalTrans

  • Marcela Pinilla

    Director of Sustainable Investing, Zevin Asset Management

  • Derek Seidman

    Professor, University of Buffalo