Christy Leavitt
Senior Campaign Director
Oceana Staff
Christy Leavitt is a senior campaign director at Oceana, overseeing the organization’s U.S. initiatives to address the plastic pollution crisis and curb its devastating impacts on our oceans, climate, and communities. She also supports Oceana’s U.S. climate and energy campaign and manages the defense work in the United States, including deep-sea mining and other emerging threats.
On the U.S. plastics campaign, Leavitt leads Oceana’s policy experts, scientists, and field team in advocating for federal, state, and local government policies that reduce the production and use of single-use plastics. Under her leadership, Oceana has campaigned to pass 20 state laws and 70 local policies on single-use plastics. During her time at Oceana, she has testified before state and Congressional committees and been quoted in numerous news outlets including The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Guardian, and more. Leavitt is featured in a PBS documentary called “We’re All Plastic People Now,” about the pervasiveness of plastic pollution in our lives.
Leavitt has advocated and organized for strong environmental policies at the national and state levels for more than two decades. Prior to joining Oceana in 2019, she worked at Environment America where she ran national campaigns, lobbied decision makers, built strong coalitions and engaged new allies, and researched and wrote reports on water and air pollution. Earlier in her career, Leavitt worked with college students training them to be effective activists and campaigners.
She graduated from Occidental College with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies.
