Emily Cunningham is an American user experience designer and environmentalist.
[1] Cunningham has a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and a Master of Science in information management.
[3] In late 2018, Cunningham led an employee-shareholder proposal asking Amazon to develop a climate change initiative.
In January 2019, Cunningham, along with Maren Costa and others from the group calling themselves Amazon Employees For Climate Justice, met with Amazon leadership to discuss the proposal, and in February, the company announced a carbon offset plan and asked for the employees to withdraw the proposal.
At the annual shareholder meeting the following May 2019, Cunningham delivered a speech to the chief executive officer of the company, Jeff Bezos, asking him to commit to the proposed resolution.