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Network Advisors

Emi
Yoko-Young
Reclaim Our Power

Biography coming soon.

Emi
Yoko-Young
Reclaim Our Power

NACRP Fund Advisors

Laura
Gracia-Santiago
Climate Adaptation and Resilience Enhancement (CARE) Coordinator, Communities for a Better Environment

Laura is a queer Latinx from Los Angeles, CA. Currently, she is the Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Enhancement (CARE) Coordinator at Communities for a Better Environment.

She brings deep organizing experience from her previous role as the Richmond Youth Organizer, where she developed CBE’s Richmond Youth for Environmental Justice Program.

In the past she canvassed for Planned Parenthood, tutored youth in Watsonville, CA, led a transportation campaign at UCSC, and coordinated a social media campaign with Physicians for Social Responsibility that highlighted the health impacts caused by climate change. She has a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Art from the University of California- Santa Cruz.

Laura is a Legal Apprentice with CBE under the CA Law Office Study Program. She will be taking the First-Year Law Students Exam or "Baby Bar" in 2024

Laura
Gracia-Santiago
Climate Adaptation and Resilience Enhancement (CARE) Coordinator, Communities for a Better Environment
Karla
Juarez
Program Coordinator at Community Organizer Unconfined

Karla is a community member, wife, sister, daughter and friend- belonging to many spaces in her community advocating for community stewardship of land and regenerative way of living. She considers herself a happy and positive person with hope for a better world and believes that our existence is a blessing and we have already won. Kalra is  accountable to Santa Ana residents, mostly people of color, low income, undocumented, monolingual Spanish speakers hard working folks. She holds herself accountable to single mothers, women of color, undocumented folks and my ancestors who sacrificed too much and for past, present and future champions supporting our liberation. 

Karla
Juarez
Program Coordinator at Community Organizer Unconfined
NJ
Mvondo
Social and environmental entrepreneur, founder of Multiculturalism Rocks, Chair of the Yolo County Climate Action Commission & the City of Davis Human Relations Commission, artist.

NJ is a writer, activist, artist and social entrepreneur based in Davis, CA. She is the owner of Multiculturalism Rocks and its BIPOC bookstore—two platforms that promote cultural diversity in all media, with an emphasis on children's literature. Two of her latest initiatives are the Interactive Healing Arts Project (HAP), and the non-profit Multicultural Families Rock (free BIPOC books, activities and resources for underserved communities). NJ is Member of the NAACP and of the National Association of Climate Resilience Planners. She serves her community as the Chair of the City of Davis Human Relations Commission (HRC), Chair and Environmental Justice Lead of the Yolo County Climate Action Commission (YCCAC), and a member of her county’s Restorative Justice Partnership committee.  NJ is also an ordained minister.

NJ
Mvondo
Social and environmental entrepreneur, founder of Multiculturalism Rocks, Chair of the Yolo County Climate Action Commission & the City of Davis Human Relations Commission, artist.
Corrine
Van Hook-Turner
Chief Executive Officer, People's Climate Innovation Center

Corrine is the Director of People’s Climate Innovation Center, which the NACRP is a program of. 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
Van Hook-Turner
Chief Executive Officer, People's Climate Innovation Center
Desiree
Williams-Rajee
Founder, Kapwa Consulting

For over 20 years, Desirée has worked with a variety of organizations including community development, environmental policy organizations, and government agencies as well as various grassroots and movement initiatives to address institutional and structural change toward racial equity in the field of climate and sustainability. Focusing on systems and cultural change through her firm Kapwa Consulting, LLC, her role is to help others strategically navigate towards enduring human and organizational solutions that build community resilience. She received her Master of International Development degree from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs from University of Pittsburgh, a MBA in Sustainable Business from Presidio Graduate School, and is currently advancing toward her MA/Ph.D in Community Liberation Indigenous Ecopsychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Desiree
Williams-Rajee
Founder, Kapwa Consulting

Faculty

Nwamaka
Agbo
CEO of the Kataly Foundation and Managing Director of the Restorative Economies Fund (REF)

Biography coming soon.

Nwamaka
Agbo
CEO of the Kataly Foundation and Managing Director of the Restorative Economies Fund (REF)
Anthony
Giancatarino
Strategy Partner, Taproot Earth and Strategy Lead for the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy

Anthony (he/him) is Strategy Partner for Taproot Earth. Anthony brings over a decade of experience advancing energy, climate, and economic policies through participatory policymaking processes. He has worked from the local to national levels, most recently growing statewide climate justice efforts in Pennsylvania.

Anthony led the Just Community Energy Transition Project for six years. In this role, he co-created and authored multiple toolkits and movement resources, including the Energy Democracy Scorecard (in partnership with the Emerald Cities Collaborative), the People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy (in partnership with the United Frontlines Table), Collaborating for Bold Possibilities (in partnership with the Climate Justice Alliance), Black Work Matters: Green Jobs Report (in partnership with POWER), and the co-creation of the We Power Policy Toolkit. Additionally, he has supported the design and implementation of climate justice fellowship programs that support the leadership and decision-making of frontline communities. Anthony spent seven years at the Center for Social Inclusion (now known as Race Forward) working with grassroots leaders — particularly in the Gulf South — on strategies to achieve racial equity in US policies. Anthony has an MPA from New York University and a BA in Theology and Political Science from the University of Scranton. He is the father of three rooted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Lenni Lenape lands.

Anthony
Giancatarino
Strategy Partner, Taproot Earth and Strategy Lead for the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
Taj
James
Director, Full Spectrum Labs | Partner, Full Spectrum Capital Partners | Founder, Movement Strategy Center

Taj James is a father, poet, practitioner, strategist, designer, and philanthropic and capital advisor. Curator at Full Spectrum Labs and Principal and Cofounder at Full Spectrum Capital Partners. Taj is also the Founder and former Director of the Movement Strategy Center. He is an official dance instructor at the intersection of wild possibility and urgent practicality, where play and unleashed potential find each other.

Taj thrives in building a community around the shared questions that matter most in our lives: how can we build relationships and express the love needed to transform our world?  How do we support leaders and communities to unlock potential and possibility, see the ecosystem and the whole, and design and act in ways that bend the long arc of history toward justice?

Working with transformational leaders, small teams, networks, and anchor institutions, Taj enjoys exploring what it means to nurture the community we have and create the community we need. What are our sacred responsibilities as stewards of land, capital, energy, and life to past generations and our children’s grandchildren?

By living into these questions together, Taj works to create space and fertile ground for seeds to be planted and nurtured, for fruit to be harvested, and for us to thrive in the web of our watersheds and relational ecosystems.

Taj
James
Director, Full Spectrum Labs | Partner, Full Spectrum Capital Partners | Founder, Movement Strategy Center
Colin
Miller
Senior Associate, E/J Solutions | Communications Organizer, Reclaim Our Power

Colin has over a decade of experience as a community organizer, coalition builder, and convener. His skills include community outreach and mobilization, real-time interpretation, and meeting facilitation. He is the former Coordinator of the Oakland Climate Action Coalition and formerly provided interpretation for the Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organizing School. Colin is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.

Colin
Miller
Senior Associate, E/J Solutions | Communications Organizer, Reclaim Our Power
Levana
Saxon
Co-founder, Partners for Collaborative Change

Biography coming soon!

Levana
Saxon
Co-founder, Partners for Collaborative Change
Marybelle
Tobias
Founder and Principal, E/J Solutions

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Marybelle graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in Political Science/Political Theory concentration and received a law degree from the University of California, San Francisco College of the Law (formerly UC Hastings). In 2007, Marybelle began her legal career as a nonprofit attorney at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment, co-directing the Civil Rights Project with late executive director, Luke Cole. Marybelle represented the town of Allensworth and other environmental justice communities across California’s Central Valley and the United States in successful civil rights and environmental litigation and federal administrative complaints, Marybelle worked in tandem with community organizers so that all cases were embedded into community-based campaigns.

Following adoption of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Marybelle expanded her focus to include climate justice policy. Marybelle represented community groups working on the California Air Resources Board’s 2008, 2013, and 2017 Climate Scoping Plans, the state’s blueprint for achieving its greenhouse gas reduction targets. At Public Advocates, she led the 535 Coalition’s successful efforts to help the state of California develop meaningful benefits for disadvantaged communities through the California Climate Investment program. The campaign successfully  unified local, regional, and statewide coalitions, secured robust investment guidelines, and ensured hundreds of millions of dollars allocated to climate projects that benefit environmental justice communities across the state, including affordable housing in transit-oriented development, clean mass transit, clean freight and urban forestry.

During this time, Marybelle also taught environmental justice as a visiting lecturer at both the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and the International University College of Turin. After leaving the nonprofit sector in 2016, Marybelle founded Environmental/Justice Solutions to advise public and private actors on how to carry out meaningful community engagement and design and implement equitable and sustainable environmental justice initiatives.

In her free time, Marybelle enjoys playing the piano, writing music and fiction, painting, and reading novels and magazines.  

Marybelle
Tobias
Founder and Principal, E/J Solutions

Members

Brooke
Staton
Reflex Design
Reflex Design
Build It Green
Build It Green
Build It Green
Carmel (Mel)
Brown
Deep Space Mind 215
Deep Space Mind 215
Carolina
Martinez
Environmental Health Coalition
Environmental Health Coalition
Cecilia
Martinez
Bezos Earth Fund
Bezos Earth Fund
Cesilia
Vega Gonzalez
Saddleback unifoed
Saddleback unifoed
Chris
Selig
PODER
PODER
Christian
San Nicolas
Micronesia Climate Change Alliance
Micronesia Climate Change Alliance
Clarke
Gocker
PUSH Buffalo
PUSH Buffalo
Colette
Pichon Battle
Taproot Earth
Taproot Earth
Colin
Miller
Environmental Justice Solutions
Environmental Justice Solutions
Courtney
King
Courtney King
Courtney King
Danielle
Jones
Sankofa Village Arkansas
Sankofa Village Arkansas
David
Peters
Oakland Allied Knowledge for Climate Action (part of CAPECA)
Oakland Allied Knowledge for Climate Action (part of CAPECA)
Denise
Abduhl-Rahman
Black Sun Light Sustainability
Black Sun Light Sustainability
Dennis
Johnson
Sort Sol Group
Sort Sol Group
Desiree
Williams-Rajee
Kapwa Consulting
Kapwa Consulting
Edgardo
Vazquez
Canal Alliance
Canal Alliance