Environmental Social Justice

Catherine Greener has significant experience in the implementation of sustainability, lean manufacturing, and industrial quality management systems. She has led sustainability and resource efficiency projects for companies and clients, from entrepreneurial start-ups to the industrial facilities of multinational corporations and Fortune 500 companies. Her industry experience includes hospitality, f...

EdieAnn Feigles is a Partner of WOVEN, a hands-on team of Cleantech and Renewable Energy specialists delivering a tailored program to propel innovation and growth   𝑵𝒐 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑵𝒐 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔TM #Starup #Finance #CleanTech #Energy #Circularity #Climate #Environment #Sustainbility #ClimateChange #Impact #Conversations #Nature Communications #EnvironmentalSocialJustice

Susan Brennan is the CEO of 5E Advanced Materials, a company that is positioned to become a vertically integrated global leader in BORON+ advanced materials with a focus on enabling decarbonization. BORON+ products target critical, high value applications within electric transportation, clean energy, food and domestic security. 5E’s advanced materials business is underpinned by its low cost, light...

Levar Jackson is the Founder of Visual Renaissance, the premier provider of custom unique art for hospitality and commercial properties and a member of the Yogh Group (Pronounced “Y” Group), a patent-backed energy technology company on a mission to introduce circularity to the hospitality industry.     𝑵𝒐 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑵𝒐 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔TM #Art #Energy #Hospitality #Circularity #Wast...

Levar is the Founder and CEO of Yogh Group (Pronounced “Y” Group), a patent-backed energy technology company on a mission to introduce circularity to the hospitality industry. He believes hospitality properties can be truly self-sufficient from energy generation to material sourcing, agricultural production and waste management. Beyond resource sustainability, Yogh Group aims to create economic an...

Andrew Arentowicz is the CEO of 50/50 Foods, Inc., a pioneering food company dedicated to crafting delicious, sustainable, and healthy meat products. Born in Philadelphia (Go Birds!) and currently living in Marina Del Rey, Andrew leads the charge in culinary innovation, spearheading the creation of the first and only USDA approved 50/50 burger—a delectable 50% beef and 50% all-natural veggie burge...

Terry Tamminen is the President and CEO of the non-profit “blue economy” hub AltaSea in the Port of Los Angeles. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Terry as Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and later Cabinet Secretary, the Chief Policy Advisor to the Governor, where Terry was the architect of many groundbreaking sustainability policies, including California's l...

After giving numerous presentations on the dangers of impending climate change, Leah Rampy became convinced that something was missing from the conversations. With experience as a teacher, professor, corporate and nonprofit executive, and leadership consultant, she began a decades-long journey to understand what lies beneath our unwillingness to change our interactions with the natural world. Her...

Matthew Vining is a Policy Analyst at Atlas Public Policy, where he focuses on bringing together data, policy, and qualitative and quantitative analysis. His background is in climate and energy policy, state and federal governance, and engineered systems in the environment. At Atlas, he also produces analyses and reports related to transportation electrification and the clean energy economy–with a...

Jessica Mahr is the Director of Technology and Gabriel Watson is a Manager for Data Science and Applications for the Environmental Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), a group of diehard #conservationists , #researchers , #advocates , and #technologists unsatisfied with the pace of change in their field. Their work spans programs like #technology , #restoration and #mitigation , #agriculture , and #wa...

Danielle Berkowitz-Sklar is the National Field Events Coordinator for “EcoMadres” and “Moms Clean Air Force’. Her upbringing and work through the nonprofit she co-founded in Costa Rica and California led to her passion for centering people and health in climate action. She enjoys working in coalitions and has led community-based projects to engage youth and underserved communities in environmental...

Richard Kidd is the President and Owner of RK4 Consultants, a firm focused on strategic advice and counsel on decarbonization, climate resilience, and sustainability to diverse clients, including international consulting firms, private equity entities, major utilities, state-owned enterprises, and clean-tech startups. He has traveled and lived around the world having worked with the US Army, the U...

Tony Kono began his career in communications as a Senior publicist and marketing executive with experience developing integrated, proactive media communications programs building on a previous career in financial journalism. As a child, his grandmother sent him to an environmental camp where he learned about estuaries and ecosystems, which sparked his lifelong interest in the environment. After Su...

Keith Malone is the Director of Hydrogen Programs for RE+ Events. In his more than 30 years of public affairs and 11 years of hydrogen experience, he has been a leader in Hydrogen Fuel Cell technology. Prior to RE+, he was the communications and policymaker lead at the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership , has driven a fuel cell electric car full time on the streets and freeways of Los Angeles, and hel...

Nicole Gardner is the Chair of the Executive Committee for The Foundation for Climate Restoration as well as co-chair of the F4CR Council of Experts, and a retired vice president of IBM’s Global Services. She is recognized as a global innovator who specializes in digital transformation solutions and has focused on innovation, technology, workforce strategy, and culture change that facilitates soci...

Co-Founded by Amy Lee and Emily Chae , OOM (Our Only Mission - Earth) is dedicated to creating a cleaner, more livable planet by reducing packaging waste pollution through reuse. Their Reuse Platform-As-A-Service offers the easiest and most scalable solution for brands and consumers to adopt reusable packaging.   𝑵𝒐 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑵𝒐 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒔TM #Reuse #Reduce #Recycle #Circular...

Miranda Massie (she/her) is the Climate Museum's director and founder. In 2014, she left a career in social justice law to start laying the groundwork for the Museum. As a civil rights impact litigator, her multiple honors include a Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship and a Mentorship-in-Residence at Yale Law School. Her board service has included a Head Start organizatio...

Graham is the founder and CEO of The Carbonauts , who help Fortune 1000 companies build climate-literate, sustainability-enthusiastic cultures via tools such as live, interactive sustainability workshops. He has worked in the environmental field for over 22 years, having founded TreeHugger , which was the most trafficked green site, with billions of page views, he worked on the topic of small livi...

Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network, International (WECAN) and the author of the books Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature, which won the 2011 Nautilus Book Award and The Story Is In Our Bones, which will be released in January 2024. Osprey works nationally and internationally with grassroots, Indigenous and...

Lawrence MacDonald is the author of  Am I Too Old to Save the Planet? A Boomer's Guide to Climate Action. He began his career as a reporter in Asia, where he saw first-hand how U.S. policies affected poor people in the developing world. Expelled from China for reporting on the student democracy movement, he became an expert in public policy communications, with a focus on poverty reduction and...

Mark Legacy is a true polymath as well as a hands-on inventor focused on solving complex problems for a world in need of climate change solutions with an environmental justice focus. His work has spanned the construction industry, having worked as a carpenter, mason, builder, and welder as well as a blacksmith. For 8 years he was a competitive cyclist until a motor vehicle accident left him with a...

Rod Thaler is a Board Member of the Resilience Innovation Hub and the founder of RT Mitigation, LLC, which focuses on applying private sector efficiencies and innovative distribution strategies enabling  states and the federal government to accelerate the spread of more resilient homes within peak catastrophe-prone states. A key differentiator is educating next generations to be able to articulate...

Jordan Haedtler is a Climate Financial Policy Consultant based in Duluth, MN, where he drafts proposals related to climate financial policy, including Inflation Reduction Act implementation ideas such as the establishment and design of state-run "green banks," as well as proposals to mitigate the exposure that state budgets, pension funds, displaced fossil fuel workers, and insurance pol...

Keith Malone is the Director of Hydrogen programs for RE + Events. In his more than 30 years of public affairs and 11 years of hydrogen experience, he has been a leader in Hydrogen Fuel Cell technology. Prior to RE+, he was the communications and policymaker lead at the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership, has driven a fuel cell electric car full time on the streets and freeways of Los Angeles, and hel...

OJ Roque, is the owner of Junkluggers of Hollywood, an eco-friendly junk removal company. He is a self-proclaimed modern-day alchemist of sustainable innovation and is armed with a passion for sustainability. Having a background in digital marketing, OJ and his team have taken his hometown of Los Angeles by storm to be one of the fastest-growing junk removal businesses in the city, all while helpi...