Building Power: Diversifying the Environmental Movement - People & Policy
Green 2.0 hosted an event with the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law, on the lack of diversity in leadership across the environmental movement. Our discussion brought together environmental leaders from philanthropy, academia, government, and the nonprofit sector to discuss the movement’s pipeline problem and the policy implications of a monolithic movement. Environmental leaders explored the movement’s real challenges with diversity and confront the myth that people of color lack interest in the environment. Policy experts also examined regulatory and legislative challenges, and how greater diversity in strategy and message can help the movement educate and activate our broad base of support.
PANELS:
WELCOME REMARKS
Richard L. Revesz, Lawrence King Professor of Law, Dean Emeritus, and Director of the Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University School of Law
OPENING REMARKS
Dr. Lisa M. Coleman, New York University’s Senior Vice President for Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation and inaugural Chief Diversity Officer
KEYNOTE
Robert Raben, Founder, Green 2.0, President & Founder, The Raben Group, and former Assistant Attorney General for the US Department of Justice (1999-2001)
THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT’S REAL PIPELINE PROBLEM
Ebony Martin, Chief Officer of People and Culture, Greenpeace USA
Myra T. Mathis, Executive Search Consultant & Practice Leader, NonProfit HR
Pallavi Phartiyal, Deputy Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network
Anthony Tansimore, Founder and Managing Director, Blueridge Advisors
Moderated by Whitney Tome, Executive Director, Green 2.0
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: POWER BUILDING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Hon. Ignacia Moreno, CEO and Principal, iMoreno Group, PLC, and Former Assistant Attorney General, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice (2009-2013)
Vice Admiral Manson K. Brown, Retired U.S. Coast Guard and Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction and Deputy Administrator for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2015-2017)
Erich Pica, President, Friends of the Earth
Moderated by Brentin Mock, Staff Writer, CityLab
CLOSING REMARKS
Mark Chambers, Director of the Office of Sustainability, NYC Office of the Mayor
Introduced by Donna U. Hope, Environmental Consultant and Diversity Advisor, Mount Eastern Joy, LLC, and former Policy Advisor, Office of Sustainability, NYC Office of the Mayor
