Julia Willebrand

She was also a past chair of both the Solid Waste Committee of the NYC Sierra Club and the International Working Group of the Green Party.

Hevesi's admission of some wrongdoing in using state employees for family and personal services has resulted in a loss of support and stimulated interest in Willebrand's campaign.

Critics of Hevesi and past Comptrollers hold that the historical mismanagement of these investments has garnered pollution, looting of regions, pension losses and even wars.

Willebrand believes that turning the direction of those investments toward wise-growth can translate to positive economic change nationally and internationally.

Willebrand has said that she will look to the Government Pension Fund of Norway as a model of sustainable socially responsible investment, stating that she "...will use the power of the Comptroller as sole trustee of $115 billion in retirement investments as an instrument of peace, joining other states efforts to end the genocide in Darfur by divesting from companies doing business in Sudan."