Elizabeth Yeampierre

Elizabeth Yeampierre is Co-Chair of the Climate Justice Alliance and Executive Director of UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization. She is an internationally recognized leader in Puerto Rican environmental and climate justice, embodying Black and Indigenous ancestry, with roots deeply embedded in New York City. Yeampierre was the first Latina Chair of the USEPA National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and the opening speaker for the first White House Council on Environmental Quality Forum on Environmental Justice under President Obama. Featured in the “New York Times” as a visionary paving the path to climate justice, she was named by Apolitical as Climate 100: The World’s Most Influential People in Climate Policy, and “Vogue” recognized her as one of the world’s 13 Climate Warriors. She also earned a spot on “Oprah’s List of Future Rising” and is a recipient of the Frederick Douglass Abolitionist Award FD200. Recently, she has spoken at Oxford University, the Ethos Conference in Brazil, and the Hague.