Georgia Tech Students Organizing for Sustainability

SOS is proud to present these four AMAZING panelists to discuss their experience working on environmental justice issues!

Nia Robinson - Director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative for Redefining Progress
Washington, DC Office
510.444.3041 x315
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Nia Robinson, an inaugural Climate Justice Corps Fellow in 2003, brings to the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC) her skill in, commitment to, and passion for organizing. Her transition from concerned citizen to the helm of EJCC demonstrates her commitment to EJCC’s core work. Before joining EJCC, she was an organizer and labor relations representative with Service Employees International Union and a program organizer with the Earth Tomorrow Program of the National Wildlife Federation.

Dr. Barbara Lynch - GT Associate Professor in International Affairs and City and Regional Planning

781 Marietta Street, NW
Room G-16A
Atlanta, GA 30332

• E-mail: barbara.lynch@inta.gatech.edu

Dr. Lynch, who received her Ph.D. from Cornell University, is now a visiting professor at Georgia Tech.  Her research focuses on Latin American Societies, Economic Development, Urbanization, and Natural Resource Utilization and Global Environmental Policy.

Tony C. Anderson - recent graduate of Morehouse College, protégé of Van Jones and a Fellow with the Compton Foundation. As a recipient of the Fellowship, Tony received a stipend so that he could focus on work with Majora Carter, Van Jones and Nia Robinson to help guide him in his urban ecology research: finding opportunities to align misplaced incentives of sustainable investment among landlords and redirection of these financial considerations to the tenets who are typically of modest means. While Student Body Vice President at Morehouse, Tony initiated a campus level dialogue about sustainability and climate change by championing the work of environmental justice. As a result of this experience, Tony co-founded the Let's Raise A Million Project (LRAM). Let's Raise a Million is a student-led, nonprofit charitable and environmental justice- focused organization committed to introducing energy saving solutions to low-income households to promote healthier living practices as well as reduce the burden of high energy bills. The project conducts complete energy efficient light bulb retrofits and energy audits, FREE OF CHARGE for residents of modest means. The goal is to exchange 1,000,000 "clean bulbs" within four years following the ongoing pilot phase, currently operational at Morehouse in Atlanta, GA and at Grambling in Louisiana.

Email lram.project@gmail.com for more information.