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Kadin Love is a Mississippi native with over a decade of organizing experience in various sectors including work in the racial, reproductive, and environmental justice fields. He currently works as the Gulf South Manager at the environmental justice nonprofit Dogwood Alliance.

Honuʻāina Nichols (they/them/ʻoia) is an aloha ʻāina practitioner and climate advocate dedicated to centering ancestral ecological knowledge with modern resilience planning. They currently serve as staff with the Oʻahu Hub Learning Community—a partnership between the Lāhui Foundation and the Center for Resilient Neighborhoods (CERENE) at Kapiʻolani Community College—where they facilitate climate resilience hub planning through a community of practice and shared learning. Their climate work was seeded in their participation of the first YCLC and NACRP cohorts in 2022.

Previously, as the Climate Education Coordinator for Mālama Loko Ea Foundation, they emboldened the ancestral knowledge required for the restoration of a 500-year-old sacred fishpond (loko iʻa) and developed youth environmental justice curricula. A UCSB graduate in Political Science and International Relations, they currently provide legal counsel at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaiʻi and hold leadership roles with the Sierra Club Oʻahu Group and Kuaʻāina Ulu ʻAuamo (KUA) Oʻahu Executive Committees. In these roles, they work with local communities to co-develop policy for protected subsistence areas, Fishing Management Plans (FMPs), demilitarization, and the protection of sacred resources. Honu is hoping to begin a Master’s of Science at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi and Natural Resources and Environmental Management to build a foundation for a future career in environmental law.

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Rebekah Williams (she/her) is Organizational Development & Strategy Lead and founder of Food for the Spirit. With over twenty years working in nonprofits in Buffalo, Rebekah has experience encouraging youth leadership, social and racial justice, environmentalism, and the arts. Rebekah is also a co-founder of both the Good Food Buffalo Coalition and the Buffalo Food Equity Network, and in addition to her role at Food for the Spirit, Rebekah serves on the leadership council of the Good Food Buffalo Coalition. Rebekah has a degree in Social Structure, Theory and Change from SUNY Empire State College, and she has completed training with the Buffalo Montessori Teacher Education Program, the Center for Economic Democracy in Boston MA, Center for Story-Based Strategy and HEAL Food Alliance in Oakland CA, Leading Change Network in Cambridge MA, Movement Generation in Oakland CA, North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) in Chicago IL, Race Forward in Washington DC, and Training for Change in Philadelphia PA.

For over 25 years, Desiree has worked with a variety of organizations including community development, refugee and international development, environmental, policy, organizations, schools, and government agencies as well as various grassroots initiatives to address institutional and structural change around diversity, inclusion, equity and race awareness. She is the former Equity Program Manager for the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, the first public position dedicated to the alignment of social equity in public administration and climate policy. In 2016, Desiree was honored by the Obama White House for her work with the community to apply an equity lens to the City of Portland/Multnomah County Climate Action Plan, and in 2017 was recognized by the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment for innovation in the environmental field.

In 2020, she was recognized as Grist Fixer, and as a nominee for the UCLA Pritzker Environmental Genius Award for her continued work in setting a new, more just, trajectory for climate work in government. In her consulting practice, she uses her unique combination of skills in organizational development, change management, social justice organizing, and systems analysis to create customized solutions that move government agencies and environmental organizations towards equitable solutions.

She received her Master of International Development degree from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs from University of Pittsburgh and an MBA in Sustainable Business from Presidio Graduate School. Most recently she received her MA in Depth Psychology with a focus Community Liberation Indigenous Ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she is currently pursuing her PhD.

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 Dr. Angela M. Chalk is a 4th generation 7th Ward resident. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Healthy Community Services, a non-profit organization, located in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, LA. She is a Past President of the Louisiana Public Health Association and has served on the American Public Health Association’s Center for Climate, Health & Equity Steering Committee. Chalk's expertise and research focuses on Community Science, the Urban Heat Island Effect and its effects to overburden African American Communities. Her passion and life's work is highlighted by her commitment to mitigate the impacts of severe weather events, urban flooding, food insecurity and coastal resiliency at the intersection of climate health and public health.

Additionally, she is a Climate Health Ambassador with Eco-America as well as a Community Science Fellow with the American Geo Physical Thriving Earth Exchange. Healthy Community Services received the 2022 Outstanding Non-Profit Award by the U.S. Water Alliance.

Dr. Chalk received a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications; and a Minor: in Public Health from Dillard University; an MS in Health Care Management from the University of New Orleans, and a Doctor of Health Administration from Virginia University of Lynchburg. Dr. Chalk serves as a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Tulane University Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences Department.  She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

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Cynthia Herrera is a mission-driven sustainability professional with over thirteen years of experience advancing racial equity in public policy and program design at the intersection of health, energy & community resilience. She holds a Master of Science degree in Sustainability Management from Columbia University's Climate School and a certificate in Climate Change and Public Health from Yale's School of Public Health. She is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer and former Senior Climate Justice Fellow with the Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice & Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She currently serves as Senior Director of Health, Energy & Community Resilience at Green & Healthy Homes Initiative headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Sarah Marie Saydun is a climate planner and community organizer. They have spent over a decade in Boston working with youth and organizing for environmental justice, and they currently work with community groups and municipal governments across New England to develop inclusive and participatory climate planning processes. In their spare time, you can find them tending lovingly to their plants, attempting to roller skate, or devouring urban fantasy novels like N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became.

Chris (Christine, she/her) is an independent Consultant for Christine Selig Associates and an advisory board member of PODER and has lived in the Mission District for over 25 years. Chris has consulted with PODER to co-develop equitable building decarbonization climate justice work. She received her PhD from the University of
California, Berkeley, with a specialty in political education, popular education, and social transformation. She has over 20 years of experience in applied participatory research, working with government, NGOs, CBOs, and philanthropy in the US and Internationally. Chris has focused her career on environmental justice and community-based solutions.The granddaughter of Scottish immigrants and French and German heritage protestants, Chris grew up in rural Western Massachusetts.

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