Environmental Justice Organizer

Alfredo Angulo (they/them), a lifelong Richmond, CA resident and recent first-generation graduate from U.C. Berkeley, witnessed many oil spills, fires, and gas leaks from the second-largest refinery in California in that town, and became an environmental justice organizer, working on such projects such as the Bay Area Air Quality Management’s Community Emissions Reduction Plan for Richmond, as well as documenting the stories of those most harmed by generations of fossil fuel operations with the Richmond Progressive Alliance’s Listening Project.

Climate Journalist and Author

Madeline Ostrander is a Seattle-based climate journalist and the author of At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth, one of Kirkus Review’s 100 best nonfiction books of 2022. The former Senior Editor of YES! Magazine, her writing has also appeared in The Atlantic, The NewYorker.com, The Nation, PBS's NOVA Next, Slate, and numerous other outlets.

Professor
UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health

Rachel Morello-Frosch is a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health whose research integrates community-based and environmental health science methods to understand structural determinants of environmental health among diverse communities with a focus on social inequality, racism, discrimination, psychosocial stress, and how these factors interact with environmental hazard exposures to produce health inequalities. She also collaborates with environmental justice partners to develop tools to improve policy and regulatory decision-making, and to advance environmental justice.

Founder
Urban Tilth

Doria Robinson, a 3rd generation resident of Richmond, CA and one of its great civic leaders who has worked tirelessly to build community-controlled wealth and local empowerment, is: Executive Director of Urban Tilth; co-founder of worker-owned Cooperation Richmond; and recently elected District 3 Richmond City Council Member. Doria, a Certified Permaculture Designer, earlier in her life worked on organic farms and at the women-owned organic produce distribution company Veritable Vegetable and at Real Food Company. In 2014 she led the charge to develop Urban Tilth’s 3-acre urban farm in Richmond and in 2016 relaunched a farm-to-table CSA social entrepreneurial venture which now serves produce to 440 West County families each week.