Climate Justice with Colette Pichon Battle

Colette Pichon Battle is a climate justice WARRIOR. A generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana, she is founder + ED of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy, developing programming focused on Equitable Disaster Recovery, Global Migration, Community Economic Development, Climate Justice + Energy Democracy.  Colette works with local communities, national funders and elected officials in the post-Katrina/post-BP disaster recovery. An Obama fellow and TED Women speaker, she develops advocacy initiatives that intersect with race, systems of power + ecology, and Colette's here with Aurora + Kelly to break it down: climate. justice.

Find out more about the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy here: https://www.gcclp.org/
Watch Colette Pichon Battle TED talk here: https://www.ted.com/talks/colette_pichon_battle_climate_change_will_displace_millions_here_s_how_we_prepare
and check out the Jemez Principals here: https://ecology.iww.org/PDF/misc/jemez.pdf

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