James Hiatt
Founder and Director of Better Bayou
Expertise: Louisiana oil and gas politics, oil industry and climate mitigation of Louisiana, promoting alternative forms of economic development in Louisiana
Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
Russell Chisholm
Managing Director of Protect Our Water, Heritage Rights Coalition
Expertise: Appalachia, Mountain Valley Pipeline
Location: Saxapahaw, NC
John Beard
Executive Director and Founder of Port Arthur Community Action Network
Expertise: LNG, FERC, the Gulf coast & the oil industry
Location: Port Arthur, Texas
Notes: ExxonMobil oil refinery operator turned environmental activist
Denali Nalamalapu
Director of Communications at Protect Our Water, Heritage Rights Coalition
Expertise: Appalachia, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Climate crisis
Location: Virginia
Zachary Figueroa
Current Summer Analyst for Accenture. Past work as PM of UCLA Wind Project
Expertise: wind energy and project development
Location :Los Angeles, California
Notes: Hispanic Scholarship Fund recipient
Emily Holden
Executive Director of Floodlight News
Expertise: investigative environmental journalism: oil & gas industry, utility companies, Louisiana oil and gas law
Location: Washington, DC
Notes: Father worked for oil and gas industry
Leah Qusba
Executive Director for Action for the Climate Emergency
Expertise: POLICY
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Ashley Hemmers
Registered Tribal member and Tribal administrator for the Fort Mojave Tribe
Expertise: national monuments, reimagining reservations with green space
Location: Mojave ancestral land, Mojave Desert, Southern California
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.
President and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus
EXPERTISE: ENVIRONMENRAL AND CLIMATE JUSTCE, VOTING RIGHTS, CIVIL RIGHTS, LNG, PETROCHEMICALS
LOCATION: WASHINGTON, D.C.
NOTES: FATHER, VETERAN, MEMBER OF Senior Advisor of Bloomberg Philanthropies Beyond Petrochemicals Campaign, and one of the most innovative advocates and strategists for racial justice and climate justice.
Roishetta Sibley Ozane
Founder and CEO of The Vessel Project
EXPERTISE: EFFECT OF CLIMATE ON BLACK COMMUNTIES, EXTREME WEATHER, LNG, PETROCHEMICALS
LOCATION: SULPHUR, LOUISIANA
NOTES: SINGLE MOTHER OF 6, HER CHILDREN HAVE ALIMENTS FROM LIVING NEAR REFINERIES
Dr. Neelu Tamala
Physician (ENT); Co-Director Climate Health Institute George Washington University
Expertise: Health impacts of climate change (extreme heat, increased smog, worsening pollen allergies) and health concerns of poor air quality
Location: Washington, D.C.
Michelle Mabson
Environmental Health Scientist at Earthjustice, Bloomberg Fellow at John Hopkins
Expertise: Environmental Health
Notes: PhD candidate for Environmental Health at John Hopkins, Co-founder of Milennials for Flint
Location: Washington, D.C.
Tonyisha Harris
Associate Director of Communications and Partnerships, Action for the Climate Emergency
Expertise: Civic engagement and the climate crisis
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Jean Su
Energy Justice Director and Senior Attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity
Expertise: One of the leading voices calling on President Biden to declare a climate emergency. co-authored a paper on how the declaration could be used and how the president has legal authority to declare it.
Location: Washington, DC
Jenny Hijazi
Senior Air Reporter at Bloomberg
Expertise: international climate litigation, climate/enviro human rights, and climate migration
Location: Washington, D.C.
Sam Sankar
Earthjustice’s Senior Vice President for Programs
Expertise: Clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’ Connor of the Supreme Court, helped lead former President Barack Obama’s National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, former DOJ
Location: Washington, D.C.