JoAnn Tall is an environmental activist of the Oglala Lakota tribe who has worked to ensure the people have a chance to approve major projects for energy development. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1993 for her protests against uranium mining and plans for testing nuclear weapons in the Black Hills area, near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where she lives.

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Cori Bush is an American politician, Democrat, RN, pastor, and activist, elected to the House for the Missouri 1st District. Cori is the first African-American woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives for Missouri.

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Cynt Marshall has been a dynamic force for inclusion and diversity within the Mavericks organization and over a 36-year career at AT&T. Widely recognized for her visionary leadership and ability to get things done, Marshall was touted as one of Adweek’s 30 Most Powerful Women in Sports and was selected as one of the 2019 Women of Power Legacy Award honorees by Black Enterprise.

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Amanda Gorman is an American poet and activist, honored as a National Youth Poet. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015. In January 2021, she became the most popular poet. young man reading at a presidential inauguration, reading his poem «The Hill We Climb» at Joe Biden’s inauguration.

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Kamala Harris is the Vice President of the United States of America. She was elected vice president after a long history of public service, having been elected attorney general of San Francisco, attorney general of California and senator of the United States. Vice President Harris was born in Oakland to parents who immigrated from India and Jamaica. She graduated from Howard University and the University of California Hastings School of Law.

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Johnson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 25, 1935 to Mary and Clarence Washington. While raising a family Johnson worked a number of jobs including recruiting members to an African American neighborhood association, sorting mail for the U.S. Postal Service, and working as an administrative support for Parents and Friends of children with difficulties

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Warren Morton Washington is an American atmospheric scientist, a former chair of the National Science Board, and currently senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

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Robert Doyle Bullard is former Dean of the Barbara Jordan – Mickey Leland School Of Public Affairs and currently Distinguished Professor at Texas Southern University. Previously Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Bullard is known as the «father of environmental justice». He has been a leading campaigner against environmental racism, as well as the foremost scholar of the problem, and of the Environmental Justice Movement which sprung up in the United States in the 1980s.

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Tom B.K. Goldtooth is a Native American environmental, climate, and economic justice activist, speaker, film producer, and Indigenous rights leader within the climate and environmental justice and indigenous movement. Tom is active in local, national and international levels as an advocate for building healthy and sustainable Indigenous communities based upon the foundation of Indigenous traditional knowledge. Tom has served as executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network since 1996 after serving as a member of the IEN National Council since 1992.

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On January 17, 1971, two oil tankers owned by Standard Oil Company, the Arizona Standard and Oregon Standard, collided in San Francisco Bay, creating an enormous oil spill of 840,000 gallons. After seeing the damage caused, John Francis joked with a friend about never riding in a car again. The following year, a neighbor of Francis’ died suddenly. Faced with a new sense of the uncertainty of life, Francis decided to act immediately and for the next 22 years refused to ride in motorized vehicles. Francis describes himself as having had an over-inflated sense of self-importance at this time and says that he initially expected other people to follow his example of him and also forgo automobiles and other powered vehicles.

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