about the Environmental Justice Panel:
This panel will be on October 17th from 10 to 11 AM (PDT) and is centered around how the climate crisis is disproportionately impacting different communities across the country. This is one of the two panels that focuses on raising awareness and furthering understanding of climate change and will hopefully serve to inform audience members about how climate change impacts everyone to varying degrees and in very different ways.
Meet the panelists:
Aniya Butler
Aniya Butler is an activist and organizer part of Youth Vs Apocalypse. She is also a published poet and spoken word artist who believes through poetry the truth can be told and change can be made. She has been part of Youth Vs Apocalypse for a year now and she has helped organize strikes, lead creative strikes, and other small things. One of her goals as an activist and an organizer is to uplift the voices of Black and Brown communities and youth because she knows these are the frontline communities of the climate crisis.
Teron McGrew
Teron McGrew, Climate Justice, Co-Chair, SF/Bay Area Climate Reality Chapter, enjoys advocacy with an educational background and strong affinity for fair housing, sustainability, (green building) community development, urban planning, and ending systemic racism. She is the CEO of her own consulting company. She likes coalition building, collaboration, and bringing the voices of the frontline community into solution-oriented processes. She has traveled with former United States Vice President Al Gore, Founder Climate Reality Project, to train Climate Reality Leaders in Atlanta, Georgia and St. Paul, Minnesota in 2019 and at the historic 2020 Climate Reality Global Trainings (14 k national and international trainees), mentoring over 80 Climate Reality Leaders. She is currently the Chairperson, Community Development Block Grant, District 1, and actively engages in the historic environmental cohort for the Howard Terminal Community Building Agreement (CBA), a baseball stadium development project between the A's, City of Oakland, and Port of Oakland. She is the creator of the Climate Reality Bay Area Climate Justice Salon Series. She loves reading, hiking, golfing, sewing, gardening, science fiction, and a love for humanity.