Annie Leonard

Annie Leonard ( born 1964 in Seattle, Washington) is an American critic, which mainly deals with international economic relations, development, health and sustainability. She is primarily known for their internet documentary The Story of Stuff about the life cycle of goods and services.

Leonard attended Barnard College, Columbia University and Cornell University. Her studies successfully completed with a thesis on regional and urban development. Leonard is coordinator of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and has worked for the International Forum for Globalization and the Environmental Health Fund. Previously, she was already active in the health care organization Health Care Without Harm and Greenpeace International. She is currently coordinator of a working group for sustainable production and sustainable consumption. In 1992 she gave a speech on the international trade in waste before the United States Congress.

Leonard lives with her daughter in California.