About Us
We envision a future in which people of different races and income levels live in healthy, safe, and just communities where kids and families thrive.
Started in early 2020, the Climate Equity Policy Center works with local environmental justice and climate action groups, state and national nonprofits, agency staff, and decision makers to develop relevant and timely model policies and publications that help us move toward a future that works for everyone.
Leadership
Sara Zimmerman
Founder and Executive Director
sara@climateequitycenter.org
510-333-4471
Sara provides strategic oversight, operational management, and policy direction for the Climate Equity Policy Center. With more than 20 years of experience with nonprofit and organizing initiatives, Sara is deeply committed to addressing the multiple intersecting crises at hand — racial injustice, climate change, health inequities, and disproportionate corporate power. Sara believes in providing informed and accessible policy tools and advice to advance equitable climate action and support community-driven change.
Photo credit: Catrina Marchetti
Advisory Board
Mónica Córdova
Funders Collaborative for Youth Organizing
Executive Co-Director
Mónica supports and directs FCYO’s role in resourcing and uplifting work led by youth of color at the intersection of racial and educational justice, healthy equity, and building power.
Tiffany Eng
California Environmental Justice Alliance
Interim Co-Director, Programs
Tiffany serves as Green Zones Program Manager at the California Environmental Justice Alliance, where she supports the amazing work that grassroot organizations are leading across the state to transform polluted and neglected areas into healthy and resilient neighborhoods.
Marisa Jones
Safe Routes Partnership
Policy and Partnerships Director
Marisa is the Policy and Partnerships Director at the Safe Routes Partnership where she works to improve active transportation connections to places that help people lead healthy lives.
Dwayne Wharton
Just StrategiesFounder & Senior Advisor
Dwayne is a founder and senior advisor with mission-driven consulting firm Just Strategies, which works to support change that centers equity and community-up leadership.
Michelle Lieberman
AICP, LEED AP
Architect
Michelle Lieberman is an architect and urban planner who works with communities around the country that are seeking to improve their built environment and active transportation initiatives.
Sponsors
The Climate Equity Policy Center is fiscally sponsored by the Social Good Fund.
Social Good Fund works to create and establish positive influences for individuals, communities, and the environment. Its goal is to sponsor and develop projects that will help positively impact and develop local communities into healthier and happier places to live, work, and be.
The Climate Equity Policy Center is a beneficiary of Climate Ride, a nonprofit that organizes amazing group bicycling or hiking adventures as fundraisers.
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