Our Team

Paige Hopkins (she/her) is the Program Coordinator for the National Association of Climate Resilience Planners (NACRP) Program at People’s Climate Innovation Center. She supports the membership network by helping design and implement resources, trainings, and other offerings that build support and ownership for communities to thrive and determine their pathways to developing climate resilience solutions.

Before joining the Climate Innovation team, Paige held previous roles in Oregon and California, as a community organizer and policy advocate working on local and statewide initiatives supporting environmental justice and community resilience planning. Paige holds a BS in Environmental Studies from Portland State University.

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Jaime Love (she/her) provides leadership, strategy and support to People's Climate Innovation Center programs that advance approaches to community-driven planning and movement building, while centering racial equity and whole-systems solutions.  Jaime has over 20 years of experience in a variety of spaces including public health, philanthropy, and climate resilience, with a deep focus on racial justice and health equity. Her work in the public health sector cultivated opportunities for direct community organizing and advocacy work in communities with disproportionate health impacts and enhanced her leadership in philanthropy and the nonprofit sectors around racial equity and climate justice. Her expertise ranges from program development and leadership, equity, policy advocacy, to communications and outreach. Jaime is a 2016 PLACES Fellow (Professionals Learning About Community, Equity, and Smart Growth), and has participated in multiple leadership programs including Rockwood Leadership Institute and Interaction Institute for Social Change. Jaime is currently on the board of the Blue Ash YMCA, Co-op Cincy, and Green Umbrella locally. Nationally, she sits on the PLACES Advisory Committee and the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) Policy Committee. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati in Health Promotion and a BS from Central Michigan University. Love for family and community is what drives Jaime's ongoing work for racial justice.

Radiah Shabazz Harold (she/her) is the Director of Communications at People’s Climate Innovation Center. She brings over a decade of experience in nonprofit strategic communications, anti-oppressive practice, racial justice, and organizational change. Radiah has uniquely bridged her strategic communications expertise and anti-oppressive social work training to implement and advise on communications strategies that broaden the generation and dissemination of content that elevates the intersection of racial justice with climate change, education, health, and affordable housing. She is passionate about using radical and transformative communications strategies to advance racial justice and cultivate Black liberation. Prior to joining the People's Climate Innovation Center, Radiah enhanced communications in her roles at Grounded Solutions Network, the Institute for Sustainable Communities, and the National Housing Conference. She also worked at Start Early (formerly The Ounce of Prevention Fund) and On Earth Peace in social work and racial justice support capacities. Radiah has also provided strategic communications and infrastructure support to Social Justice Fund NW, the Asian American Scholar Forum, and the Vera Institute of Justice through her communications consultancy, YasBrook Consulting.

Radiah holds a BA in journalism from Howard University and a master's in social work from the University of Chicago. She is deeply committed to actualizing liberation and wellness and prioritizes quality time with her family, traveling, and writing to achieve it.

Corrine Van Hook-Turner (she/her) leads the overall vision and strategy for the organization and its programs, bringing a lens of racial equity and transformative movement building. Corrine convenes and cultivates creative leadership within climate justice and deep democracy ecosystems toward a shared vision for a Just Transition to a world of interdependence, resilience, and regeneration.Corrine’s 20+ years of experience are deeply immersed in movements advancing social, economic, environmental and racial justice. As a former IDEAL Scholar (Initiative for Diversity in Education and Leadership), she witnessed and continues to nurture the compelling impact of investing in youth and disenfranchised communities of color so that leadership reflects the diversity it seeks to serve. Since then she has continued to develop her leadership working with the Rockwood Leadership Institute, Greater New Beginnings Youth Services, Oakland Climate Action Coalition, and contracting with various organizations. Corrine was the former Co-Director of Rooted in Resilience (formerly Bay Localize), a grassroots organization working to catalyze a movement for more equitable, resilient communities. After sunsetting the 10+ year old organization, she served as the Program Manager and Director of Climate Innovation initially as a program of Movement Strategy Center (MSC) previous to leading the entire organization toward the end of 2020. She currently serves on the board of EARTHseed Farm and steering committee of the California Trade Justice Coalition. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Amber Washington is the Events and Operations Manager at People’s Climate Innovation Center. She is an experienced professional, with over 15 years of experience producing and managing events of varying scales for organizations such as PolicyLink, Harbor Regional Center, and Big Bowl of Ideas. Before joining Climate Innovation full-time, Amber supported the team as a consultant. In both capacities, she is responsible for providing event leadership and expertise to ensure engaging, interactive, and valuable experiences for Climate Innovation’s constituents.

Amber holds a B.A from the University of California, Berkeley and a Masters of Public Administration from California State University, Northridge. When she isn’t working an event or planning one, you can find Amber walking around Inglewood with her dog, Sushi.