Meet the Leaders of the US Accelerator Program

Protecting sacred sites for indigenous communities and uplifting the voices of California’s indigenous peoples.

Healing communities with resilence, education, and preparation.

Community organizing in Idaho to create and implement local campaigns on environmental justice issues that affect Latinx, immigrant, and farm working communities.

Making legal advocacy and litigation services more accessible for indigenous communities impacted by climate change.

Defending Native Hawaiian elders and protecting cultural rights.

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.

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.

Elevating equity and collaboration in climate justice work.

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

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

Nurturing migrant communities with access to education and reinforced rights.

Making climate engagement accessible and inspiring.

Improving the accessibility and global development of solar energy.

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

Highlighting youth voices on climate policy in Boston.

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

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.

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

Building a community of allies to dismantle white supremacy inside of the climate change movement.

Increasing diverse student representation in food, agricultural, and natural resource sciences and supporting young people to become environmental justice advocates.

Combating environmental racism through energy research and education.

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

Activating youth to grow climate action.

Accelerating a land and water protectors initiative within Indigenous communities in Virginia.

Designing sustainable energy solutions and fighting for environmental justice in rural Virginia.

Building individual and communal immunity by providing access to essential foods and medicines to all.

Advocating for and progressing environmental and social policy in Hawaii.

Cultivating the next generation of nature protectors through sharing knowledge in Indigenous lifeways and ethnobotany

Advancing clean mobility and clean transportation equity

Empowering BIPOC communities to create racial justice in the climate movement.

Decarbonizing and eliminating fossil fuels dependence in public schools in the Bay Area, California.

Advocating for restorative environmental justice for African American and Black Communities through the Black Climate Network.

Teaching cultural lessons and self-sustainment through indigenous seed gardening.

Supporting the development of the future generation of African American environmentalists from Cumberland, Virginia.

Creating solutions to the waste crisis in Guam and Micronesia.

Improving nutrition and reducing stress for food insecure populations.

Repairing native land that has been polluted and damaged by industrial industries.

Elevating voices, and building networks for local, national, and international climate solutions in Alaska.

Preparing youth of color to address environmental racism and the climate crisis.