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. 

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