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As humanity tackles the threat of climate change, it must move with urgency
to ensure a liveable future. At the same time, it must also protect the
lives and livelihoods of those on the frontline of the crisis today — who
suffer unduly from the pollution that contributes to warming, as well as
the impacts of a changing climate. Leaders from frontline communities
throughout the United States have worked hard to ensure a voice for their
neighbors and have also developed local, community controlled renewable and
regenerative solutions to the crisis along with a framework for evaluating
solutions that are just and equitable.
In this discussion, leaders from across the country will discuss the
framework of centering equity and justice and tackling the root causes of
the climate crisis as society moves away from fossil fuels, share real-life
examples of how solutions that meet that framework operate on the ground,
and warn of what they see as “false solutions,” which rather than
benefiting vulnerable communities will ensure they remain sacrifice zones.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
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ELIZABETH YEAMPIERRE | CO-CHAIR OF CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE & EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR OF UPROSE
_Opening Remarks_
Elizabeth is an internationally recognized Puerto Rican
environmental/climate justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry,
born and raised in New York City's environmentally burdened communities.
Elizabeth is co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance, a national frontline
led organization and Executive Director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino
community-based organization. Elizabeth was the 1st Latina Chair of the
USEPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and opening speaker
for the first White House Council on Environmental Quality Forum on
Environmental Justice under Obama. Elizabeth has been featured in the NY
Times as a visionary paving the path to Climate Justice. She was named by
Apolitical as Climate 100: The World’s Most Influential People in Climate
Policy , also featured in Vogue as one of 13 Climate Warriors in the world
and a recipient of the Frederick Douglass Abolitionist Award FD200.
Recently, she has spoken at Oxford University, the Ethos Conference in
Brazil and the Hague.
NIKHIL SWAMINATHAN | INTERIM CEO & EDITOR IN CHIEF, GRIST
_Moderator_
Nikhil is an award-winning journalist and Interim CEO and Editor in Chief
at Grist. Under Nikhil’s direction, Grist has won numerous awards,
including recent recognition by the Online News Association for General
Excellence among small newsrooms. Nikhil began his tenure at Grist as
Senior Justice Editor, founding the Environmental Justice Desk. He’s held
editorial positions at Scientific American, Al Jazeera America, GOOD,
Archaeology and others. Prior to joining Grist, he was in the inaugural
class of Ida B. Wells fellows at Type Investigations.
TOM GOLDTOOTH | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK (IEN)
_Panelist_
Tom is Diné and Dakota and lives in Minnesota. Since the late 1980’s,
Tom has been involved with environmental related issues and programs
working within tribal governments in developing Indigenous-based
environmental protection infrastructures. Tom works with Indigenous peoples
worldwide. Tom is known as one of the environmental justice movement
grassroots leaders in North America addressing toxics and health, mining,
energy, climate, water, globalization, sustainable development and
Indigenous rights issues. Tom is one of the founders of the Durban Group
for Climate Justice; co-founder of Climate Justice NOW!; co-founder of the
U.S. based Environmental Justice Climate Change Initiative and a member of
the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change that operates
as the Indigenous caucus within the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change. Tom is a policy adviser to Indigenous communities on
environmental protection and more recently on climate policy focusing on
mitigation, adaptation and concerns of false solutions.
CASSIA HERRON | IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR, KENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH
_Panelist_
Cassia is a proud Kentuckian who has spent two decades working to
transition Kentucky's agricultural and energy economies from extractive
industries to democratized, community-owned, cooperative economies that
advance equity and justice. Cassia is a co-founder of the Louisville
Association for Community Economics and the Louisville Community Grocery
and is a consultant in cooperative development, planning and strategy.
Cassia is a graduate of the University of Louisville and holds a Masters of
Urban Planning from the University of Michigan.
MARIA LOPEZ-NUÑEZ | DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZING AND ADVOCACY, IRONBOUND
COMMUNITY CORPORATION (ICC)
_Panelist_
Maria is from Newark, New Jersey and serves as the Deputy Director of
Organizing and Advocacy of Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC). She
played a key role in the passage of the landmark Environmental Justice Bill
(EJ Bill; S232). This bill helps the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection assess the public health and environmental risks that the
renewing or expanding facilities would bring into our communities in New
Jersey. She was one of the leaders of the Compassionate New Jersey
Coalition, which fought to prevent evictions and foreclosures and to keep
all New Jerseyans safe in their homes during the COVID 19 crisis. Maria is
on the board of the Climate Justice Alliance, The ROOTS Project, The New
Jersey Civic Information Consortium and was recently appointed to serve on
the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council by President Biden.
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