Leslie Danoff
Leslie Danoff is Co-founder and founding COO of the conservation nonprofit, Global Forest Generation. Previously, as board director of Rainforest Trust from 2013 to 2016, she provided strategic leadership that enabled the nonprofit to grow substantially. Leslie’s professional highlights as a broadcast journalist include working with Bill Moyers in Public Television and Walter Cronkite at CBS News. At CBS she also worked on news specials and documentaries (“The CIA’s Secret Army” with Bill Moyers) and developed a multi-part series for the CBS Morning News. At New York’s public television station, WNET, she co-produced a series devoted to critical New York City issues, “NY & Co.” which won two Emmys. In 2003, Leslie produced/co-directed “Saturday and Reuben’s,” an independent film about a community of magicians in NYC who shared secrets and camaraderie every Saturday for more than six decades (NY and LA International Film Festival.) First and foremost, Leslie’s passion is for family—her husband of 41 years, three sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren.
