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Ibrahim Abdul-Matin Fellow, Green for All

Rohit T. Aggarwala Director, New York City's Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability

Susana Almanza Director, People Organized in the Defense of Earth and her Resources (PODER)
Martha Arguello Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles
Tom Athanasiou Executive Director, EcoEquity
Paul Baer Research Director, EcoEquity
John Balbus Chief Health Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
Marisol Becerra Youth Organizer, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
Gerry Bogacz Planning Director, New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC)
Judy Bonds Co-Director, Coal River Mountain Watch
Ebony B. Bookman Chief of Staff, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
James K. Boyce Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
José Bravo Executive Director, Just Transition Alliance
Robert D. Bullard Founding Director, Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark-Atlanta University
Yolande Cadore Director of Community Organizing and Outreach, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Nelson Carrasquillo General Coordinator, CATA (Farmworkers Support Committee)
Nicola Coddington Executive Director, New York Interfaith Power & Light
Luke Cole Director, Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Cecil Corbin-Mark Deputy Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Kathy Curtis Policy Director, Clean New York
Roshani Dantas Program Manager, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice
Giovanna Di Chiro Professor, Mt. Holyoke College
David Doniger Policy Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Julian Drix Organizer, Rising Tide North America
Daniel Faber Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
Marian Feinberg Environmental Health Coordinator, For a Better Bronx
Deeohn Ferris President, Sustainable Community Development Group, Inc.
Jamie Fine Economist, Environmental Defense Fund
Jei Fong Outreach and Public Education Coordinator, Beyond Ground Zero Network
Sheila Foster Associate Dean, Fordham University School of Law
Omar Freilla Founder, Green Worker Cooperatives
Howard Frumkin Director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Kari Fulton National Campus Campaign Coordinator, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative

Paolo Galizzi Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Bill Gallegos Executive Director, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
Jihan Gearon Native Energy Organizer, Indigenous Environmental Network
Ken Geiser Director of the Lowell Cetner for Sustainable Production, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Peter Goldmark Climate and Air Program Director, Environmental Defense Fund
Robert Gough Secretary, IntertribalCOUP.org
Gary Grant Director, Concerned Citizens of Tillary
Pam M.W. Graybeal Ph.D. Candidate, University of California - Berkeley
Shana Griffin Co-Founder, Women's Health & Justice Initiative

Michon Gwen Indigenous Environmental Network

James Hansen Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Rachel Harris U.S. Climate Change Campaign Coordinator, Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
Tyrone Hayes Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California - Berkeley
Oran Hesterman President & Chief Executive Officer, Fair Food Foundation
Mary Anne Hitt National Coal Campaign Director, Sierra Club
Savi Horne Executive Director, Land Loss Prevention Project
Peter Iwanowicz Director of the Climate Change Office, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Lisa Jackson Former Commissioner, New Jersey State Department of Environmental Protection
Dale Jamieson Director of Environmental Studies, New York University
Rich Kassel Senior Attorney and Director of Clean Fuels and Vehicles Project, Natural Resources Defense Counsel (NRDC)
Shawn Kimmell Director of Policy Initiatives, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ)
Roger Kim Policy Director, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Patrick Kinney Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health, Columbia University
Charles Komanoff Co-Founder, The Carbon Tax Center
Burt Lauderdale Executive Director, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Howard Learner President and Executive Director, Environmental Law and Policy Center
Erroll Lewis Journalist, CNN and The Daily News
David Levine Founding Partner, Green Harvest Technologies
Aaron Mair Executive Director, Arbor Hill Environmental Justice, Inc.
Eric Mann Director, Labor/Community Strategy Center
Suzanne Marsh Intern Minister, The Community Church of New York
Cecilia Martinez Director, Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy 
Thomas Matte Director of Environmental Research, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Sabrina McCormick Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
David McKeown Medical Officer of Health, City of Toronto

Jennifer Miller Founder and Executive Director, Bioethics International

Vernice Miller-Travis Vice-Chair, Maryland State Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities
Rachel Morello-Frosch Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California - Berkeley
Alexandra B. Nolen Director of Health Policy and Planning at the Center to Eliminate Health Disparities, University of Texas Medical Branch
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon Executive Director, Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
Amy O'Donnell Chief of Staff, Office of Congressman John B. Larson
Dana Ginn Paredes Organizing Director, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ)
Christian Parenti Journalist, The Nation 
Manuel Pastor Professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Brenda Platt Co-Director, Institute of Self-Reliance
Francisca Porchas Lead Organizer, Labor/Community Strategy Center
Gil Quiniones Chief Operating Officer, New York Power Authority (NYPA)
The Honorable Charles B. Rangel New York State Congressman

Nia Robinson Director, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative

Cynthia Rosenzweig Senior Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Mark Rossi Research Director, Clean Production Action
Nicky Sheats Director of the Center for the Urban Environment at the John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy, Thomas Edison State College
Peggy Shepard Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Rachel Smolker Biofuels Specialist, Global Justice Ecology Project
Matthew Stanford Director of Programs, St. Vincent's House
James Subudhi Sustainability Coordinator, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Julie Sze Associate Professor in American Studies, University of California - Davis
Dorceta Taylor Associate Professor, University of Michigan
J. Phillip Thompson Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aimee Thorne-Thompson Executive Director, Pro-Choice Education Project (PEP)
J. Timmons Roberts Chancellor Professor of Sociology, The College of William and Mary
Ernest Tollerson Director of Policy & Media Relations, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
Jenice View Assistant Professor of Educational Transformation, George Mason University
Bill Walsh Founder and Executive Director, Healthy Building Network
Kim Wasserman Coordinator, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
Beverly Wright Founding Director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Dillard University
Elizabeth Yeampierre Executive Director, UPROSE


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