Anna Rose

Rose was born in Newcastle, NSW, and graduated from Merewether High School in 2001. She won a scholarship with Distinction to the University of Sydney and graduated in 2008 with degrees in law (1st class honours) and Arts. During her studies, she was part of the Department of Geography's South East Asian field school along the Mekong Delta, and in her final year she went on exchange to Cornell University in upstate New York.{{cite web|title=Alumni Profile|url=http://sydney.edu.au/arts/alumni_friends/alumni_profiles.shtml|publisher=The University of Sydney|accessdate=4 April 2012}} Rose received the Young Alumni Award for Achievement in 2009.{{cite web|last=Schievelbein|first=Jami|title=Anna Rose (BA '06, LLB '08) wins the Young Alumni Award for Achievement|url=http://sydney.edu.au/news/law/436.html?newsstoryid=3600|publisher=The University of Sydney|accessdate=4 April 2012}}

Rose was elected Environment Officer of the Students Representative Council and was spokesperson for the organisation Sustainability at Sydney University.{{cite web|title=Sydney adopts green manifesto|url=http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=409|publisher=The University of Sydney|accessdate=3 April 2012}} In 2005 and 2006 she helped to lead a student campaign for the university to take action to reduce carbon emissions.

In 2004, Rose was elected an editor of Honi Soit, the weekly student newspaper.{{cite news |title=Honi Soit Editors |url=http://www.src.usyd.edu.au/sites/default/files/625.pdf |work=Honi Soit |date=18 October 2006}}{{failed verification |date=August 2023 |reason=Citation shows she was an editor of Honi Soit in 2006 fall semester, nothing about 2004}} In 2005 Rose deferred her studies for a year upon election as National Environment Officer for the National Union of Students as a member of the Australian Student Environment Network. At the end of 2005 Rose was selected to attend the United Nations Kyoto Protocol climate change negotiations in Montreal.{{cite web|title=Alumni Profile|url=http://sydney.edu.au/arts/alumni_friends/alumni_profiles.shtml|publisher=The University of Sydney|accessdate=3 April 2012}}

In 2007, Rose went on exchange to Cornell Law School and while living in the United States represented young Australians at the Secretary General's Special Conference on Climate Change at the United Nations in New York on 24 September.{{cite web|title=Law School Exchange Student Uses Law to Stop Climate Change|url=http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/spotlight.cfm?pageid=60336|publisher=Cornell University Law School|accessdate=17 April 2012}}

In 2006, Rose founded the Australian Youth Climate Coalition by bringing together representatives from all major Australian youth-run organisations in Melbourne for a three-day founding summit. Rose was AYCC's first national director, studying law while starting up the new organisation. After she returned from the United States, Amanda McKenzie and Rose shared the leadership of the organisation as co-directors.

Rose's early work with the AYCC included setting up organisational fundamentals, growing membership, and representing the organisation in the media and at public events. For example, she spoke alongside the Dalai Lama at Perth's Burswood Dome.{{cite news|title=Airline boss to join Dalai Lama |url=http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/airline-boss-to-join-dalai-lama/story-e6frg3fc-1111113494634|accessdate=14 April 2012|newspaper=The Sunday Times (Western Australia)|date=7 May 2007}}

Rose was instrumental in two Australian Youth Climate Coalition projects in 2009. Power Shift, Australia's first youth climate summit, brought together 1500 of the AYCC's most active members together at the University of Western Sydney for three days of training and workshops in campaigning and grassroots organising.{{cite news|last=Munro|first=Kelsey |title=Climate warriors march behind little green book |url=http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-warriors-march-behind-little-green-book-20090710-dg2t.html |accessdate=14 April 2012|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=11 July 2009}} The final day culminated in a flash mob dance on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.

In December 2009, Rose helped lead a delegation of young Australians and Pacific islanders to the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen.{{Cite web|url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/03/annas-copenhagen-diary-day-two/|title=Anna's Copenhagen Diary: day two|date=3 December 2009|website=Crikey|access-date=2019-09-30}}

In 2009, Rose wrote a chapter on environment and sustainability for the book The Future, By Us published by Hardie Grant Books. Rose has published articles in The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Vogue Australia and other publications.{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Anna|title=Young people must take the lead in fighting climate change|url=http://www.theage.com.au/environment/young-people-must-take-the-lead-in-fighting-climate-change-20090315-8yv8.html|accessdate=14 April 2012|newspaper=The Age|date=16 March 2009}}{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Anna|title=New force of nature|url=http://www.smh.com.au/environment/earth-hour/new-force-of-nature-20090506-av3q.html|accessdate=14 April 2012|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=29 March 2009}}{{cite news|last=Rose|first=Anna|title=An uncertain future unless we think ahead|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/news/an-uncertain-future-unless-we-think-ahead/story-fn8ex0p1-1226065046229|accessdate=14 April 2012|newspaper=The Australian|date=30 May 2011}}

In 2012, Rose appeared on the ABC Television documentary I Can Change Your Mind About... Climate.{{cite web|title=Characters|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/characters/|work=I Can Change Your Mind About... Climate|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=4 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804205339/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/changeyourmind/characters/|archive-date=4 August 2012|url-status=dead}}

In 2012, Melbourne University Press published Rose's book Madlands: A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic. The book is the story of Rose's efforts to change the mind of former Finance Minister Nick Minchin on the science of climate change.

The book received favourable reviews by authors Bill McKibben and Peter FitzSimons, scientists Tim Flannery and Matthew England, former leader of the Liberal Party John Hewson, CEO of World Vision Australia Tim Costello, and lead singer of the Australian band Blue King Brown, Natalie Pa'apa'a.{{cite web |url=http://madlands.com.au/Testimonials.html |title=Praise for Madlands |accessdate=14 April 2012 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Later in 2012, Rose also toured the book around Australia on the 'Madlands Book Tour', visiting over 50 towns and cities around Australia.{{cite web |url=http://annarose.net.au/2012/05/17/milton-ulladulla-wollongong/ |title=Madlands Book Tour |accessdate=9 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714144328/http://annarose.net.au/2012/05/17/milton-ulladulla-wollongong/ |archive-date=14 July 2014 |url-status=dead }}

Rose was a course convenor and lecturer at the Australian National University, for the undergraduate course 'Leadership & Influence'.{{Cite web |url=http://vc-courses.anu.edu.au/li/course-information/ |title=Course information – VC's Courses – ANU |access-date=15 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130418103743/http://vc-courses.anu.edu.au/li/course-information/ |archive-date=18 April 2013 |url-status=dead }} 'Leadership & Influence' is one of three Vice Chancellor's Courses, which are high-level, inter-disciplinary subjects involving active discovery and research.{{cite web |title=ANU's Vice-Chancellor's Courses |url=https://vc-courses.anu.edu.au}}

Rose is currently an Associate with the Melbourne University Sustainable Societies Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/about/honoraries-and-associates|title=Honoraries and Associates|last=Denby|first=Claire|date=23 July 2018|website=Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute|language=en|access-date=2019-09-30}}

Rose is on the board of Farmers for Climate Action, a movement of farmers and agricultural leaders putting farmers at the centre of climate solutions behind and beyond the farm gate.{{Cite web|url=https://www.farmersforclimateaction.org.au/|title=Farmers For Climate Action|website=Farmers For Climate Action|language=en|access-date=2019-09-30}}

Rose is a co-founder of Australia's first climate advocacy-focused giving circle, Groundswell.{{Cite web|url=https://annarose.net.au/|title=Anna Rose|website=Anna Rose|language=en|access-date=2020-12-15}}

Rose is the founder and CEO of Environment Leadership Australia, a not-for-profit, non-partisan organisation championing community and political leadership on climate change.

Rose's awards and honours include:

• 2007–2008 – International Youth Foundation Fellowship{{cite web|title=Meet the Fellows|url=http://www.youthactionnet.org/index.php?fuse=meetfellows&year=2007|publisher=IYF|accessdate=18 December 2012}}
• 2008 – Delegate, Prime Minister's Australia 2020 Summit{{cite news|title=Australia 2020 Summit — full list of participants|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/full-list-of-participants/2008/03/28/1206207389365.html|accessdate=17 April 2012|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=28 March 2008}}
• 2008–2009 – Australian Leadership Award from the Australian Davos Connection
• 2009 – University of Sydney Young Alumni Award for Achievement
• 2010 – Sydney Morning Herald '100 Most Influential Sydneysiders'
• 2010 – Sierra Club Earthcare Award for International Environmental Protection{{cite news|last=Davis|first=Ellen|title=Sierra Club Announces 2010 National Awards|url=http://www.sierraclub.org/awards/downloads/2010-press-release.pdf|accessdate=17 April 2012|date=24 September 2010}}
• 2011 – Sydney Morning Herald '50 Most Powerful People in NSW'
• 2011 – The Australian/ IBM Expert Contributor, Shaping Our Future Series{{cite web|title=Shaping Our Future|url=http://www-07.ibm.com/innovation/au/shapingourfuture/index1.html|publisher=IBM|accessdate=17 April 2012}}
• 2014 – Australian Geographic Society's Conservationist of the Year{{Cite web|url=https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/society/awards/2014/10/conservationist-of-the-year/|title=Conservationist of the Year 2014|date=27 October 2014|website=Australian Geographic|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-09-30}}
• 2015 – ACT Australian of the Year Nominee{{Cite web|url=https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/anna-rose/1198/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221091852/https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/anna-rose/1198/|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 February 2022|title=Anna Rose|website=www.australianoftheyear.org.au|access-date=2022-02-21}}
• 2019 – AFR Woman of Influence{{Cite web|url=https://www.afrwomenofinfluence.com.au/search/alumni_year/2019/type/alumni_search/|title=You searched for|website=AFR Women of Influence|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-30|archive-date=21 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421180635/https://www.afrwomenofinfluence.com.au/search/alumni_year/2019/type/alumni_search/|url-status=dead}}

• Madlands, a journey into the climate fight, 2012, Melbourne University Press

• Climate change in literature
• Climate change in Australia

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• [http://www.smh.com.au/national/letters/claims-of-deniers-wont-alter-the-facts-20120427-1xqh2.html Public comment on the ABC TV program I can change your mind about climate change] Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 2012.
• [http://theconversation.edu.au/no-one-likes-to-change-their-mind-not-even-on-climate-6674 How people resist changing their minds] 'The Conversation', 27 April 2012.

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