Richard Wegman is Chief Operating Officer of Kiss the Ground. He brings more than 40 years of leadership and consulting expertise from a diverse background of environmental and social justice nonprofit organizations nationally and in the Los Angeles area. He is Treasurer of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, an organization that fiscally sponsors more than 300 projects with more than $60,000,000. He is also Vice-Chair and Treasurer of Amazon Watch, an organization that works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.