Meet the Leaders of the 2021 US Accelerator Program

Removing pollutants and toxins from Los Angeles communities through science and education.

Healing communities with resilence, education, and preparation.

Healing her tribe through food justice and environmental advocacy.

Supporting Bay Area waste management through planning, innovative research, and strategic communications that improve equity for disadvantaged communities.

Defending Native Hawaiian elders and protecting cultural rights.

Encouraging environmental resilience through community partnership and engagement.

Advocating for clean energy and technology in the household energy sector.

Uplifting human rights based responses in frontline communities.

Encouraging the growth, development, and thriving of the Black community in marine science.

Researching agroecology and expanding people’s relationships with plants with civic science communities.

Making climate engagement accessible and inspiring.

Nurturing migrant communities with access to education and reinforced rights.

Stewarding land, protecting wisdom, and helping others heal their connection with nature.

Elevating equity and collaboration in climate justice work.

Improving the accessibility and global development of solar energy.

Empowering health professionals to stand up against climate change for climate health in California

Uplifting and training youth voices in climate advocacy through music and creativity.

Highlighting youth voices on climate policy in Boston.

Stewarding land and open spaces cultivating community investment.

Creating environmental justice and climate solutions through engineering.

Preserving indigenous history and reconnecting the people of the Marianas to their land and waters.

Pushing forward environmental justice in Stanislaus County.

Educating and equipping communities to better manage water systems.

Challenging extractive oil industries in South Los Angeles.

Uniting and amplifying climate solutions based on mutual flourishing

Decolonizing food systems and transnational indigenous spaces.

Combating environmental racism through energy research and education.

Helping conservation organizations become more inclusive and implement new methods to complex conservation problems.

Advocating for and progressing environmental and social policy in Hawaii.