Our
history
The Just Transition Alliance was founded in 1997 as a
coalition of environmental justice and labor organizations. Together with
frontline workers, and community members who live along the fence-line of
polluting industries, we create healthy workplaces and communities. We focus on
contaminated sites that should be cleaned up, and on the transition to clean
production and sustainable economies. The Just Transition Alliance is a
501(c)3 organization based in Chula Vista, California.
Our
partners
The Just Transition Alliance is a coalition of labor,
economic justice activists, environmental justice activists, Indigenous people
and working-class people of color. The organizations that comprise Just
Transition Alliance are the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Canadian
Communications, Energy, and Paper Workers International Union, Farmworker
Network for Economic and Environmental Justice, Indigenous Environmental
Network, Northeast Environmental Justice Network, Southwest Network for
Environmental and Economic Justice, and the United Steel Workers of America.
Together, the Just Transition Alliance embodies the process of people of color,
Indigenous peoples, workers, and unions in polluting industries in Canada,
Mexico and the U.S. addressing environmental and economic justice issues
together. Read about our principles .
Staff
José T. Bravo
Executive Director
José is a leader in Californian chemicals policy reform
work, and Green Chemistry as a co-convenor of Californians for a Healthy
and Green Economy (CHANGE). CHANGE is an alliance of health, environmental,
labor, resource organizations and EJ organizations throughout California.
Also, José is on the steering committee of the State Alliance for Federal
Reform of Chemicals Policy (SAFER). SAFER is an alliance of organizations in key
states working to create a pre-market testing system and regulation for all
chemicals. José works directly with Environmental Justice (EJ) Communities and
Labor (Organized and Unorganized). José’s work in social justice issues is
rooted in his upbringing in the Southern California farm fields alongside both
his parents. José has also worked on immigrant rights issues since his
days as a student organizer in the 80’s to the present. José has
participated in the Environmental Justice movement since 1990, over the years he
has gained recognition as a national and international leader in the EJ
movement. José is also serves on the board of Communities for a Better
Environment.
Dr. Jenice L. View
Training and Education Director
Jenice is an Assistant Professor of Educational
Transformation. For more than twenty years, Jenice has worked with a variety of
nongovernmental organizations to create space for the voices that are often
excluded from public policy considerations: women, people of color, poor urban
and rural community residents, and especially youth. She has also been an
educator in a variety of classroom and community settings, including as a middle
school humanities teacher at a DC public charter school, as the education and
training director of a national environmental justice and labor organization,
and as a professional development trainer of classroom teachers.
She is a co-editor of Putting the Movement Back Into
Civil Rights Teaching, winner of the 2004 Philip Chinn award from the National
Association of Multicultural Education. She has presented workshops and
presentations in a variety of national and international settings on the
subjects of popular education, labor education, environmental justice, youth
development, and the civil rights education. A native of Washington, DC, she has
a B.A. in economics and international relations from Syracuse University, an
MPA-URP in development studies and urban and regional planning from Princeton
University, and a Ph.D. in education from the Union Institute and
University.
Cathy Green
Development and Communications Manager
Cathy has experience fundraising, outreach, and
community organizing. She has a BA in Environmental Studies, and an MA in
Geography, both from Cal State East Bay. Her Master's research focused on energy
efficiency, alternatives to polluting fossil fuel electricity, and environmental
justice.
Board
Cecil Corbin-Mark
Northeast Environmental Justice Network
New York, NY
Tom Goldtooth
Environmental Justice Leader
Indigenous Environmental Network
Bemidji, MN
Cipriana Jurado
Centro de Investigación y Solidaridad
Obrera
Mexico
Brian Kohler
Chemical, Energy, Paper Union
Ottawa. Canada
Pam Tau Lee
Labor Occupational Health Project
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
San Francisco, CA
Richard Moore
Environmental Justice Leader
Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic
Justice
Albuquerque, NM
Tirso Moreno
Farmworker Justice Network
Apopka, FL
Keith Romig
United Steelworkers of America
Nashville, TN
