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Climate Mobilization Network

Weaving together local climate emergency groups into a nationwide movement

Want to organize to stop the climate emergency? We're here to help!

The Climate Mobilization Network serves our partner organizations and their constituents across the United States. We welcome organizations that are working to pass a climate emergency declaration or are using our climate emergency framework to achieve a just, all-of-society Climate Mobilization. The Network is funded by our sister organization, Climate Mobilization Project. 

*We ask member organizations to adopt an agreement with the Network to uphold CMP’s mission, vision, and values, and to pursue a local 2030 zero-emissions and just transition campaigns. The Network was designed to meet the needs of volunteer-run organizations and coalitions, but membership is open to any local climate organization aligned with a just transition and zero emissions by 2030 goal. There is no cost to join. Membership in the Network is not open to individuals.

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Campaign Coaches

The Climate Mobilization Network’s campaign coaches are a core resource we provide to our 40+ member groups to guide and mentor Network groups in carrying out successful campaigns that put pressure on local targets to take climate action. Our coaches support our member groups in coalition and base–building with frontline communities, and centering racial justice in their organizing work while challenging all systems of oppression that manifest in organizing groups. 

 

Our coaches can support you in brainstorming for, planning, and implementing all areas of your campaign work while serving as mentors for your group leaders. TCM Network’s coaches have extensive backgrounds in local climate policy, climate action planning and implementation, frontline-led movement–building, and leadership development. Please reach out to mariyah@climatemobilization.org if you are interested in learning more about our coaching resource or being paired with one of our coaches, if slots are available. Note: we will prioritize youth-led and BIPOC-led climate groups with any available coaching slots. 

Alexia Leclerq

Alexia Leclerq

Alexia (she/they) is an environmental justice organizer based in Austin, TX. They graduated summa cum laude from NYU (’20), where they self-designed a major titled “The Politics and Economics of Inequality.” Their research focuses on political ecology, environmental justice, AAPI communities, inequality, postcolonialism. As an organizer and researcher they have spent the past 5 years working on various issues from preserving the Colorado River, water rights, fighting land use policy and zoning that enforces race-based discrimination, conducting ethnographic research on climate health, to organizing mutual aid, youth programming, and shaping national legislation alongside members of the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum and the Environmental Justice Health Alliance; today Alexia continues to work as an organizer with PODER, a grassroots EJ org. Alexia is also the co-founder of Start: Empowerment, a BIPOC led social and environmental justice education non-profit working with youth, educators, activists, and community members to implement justice-focused education and programming in schools and community spaces. S:E curriculum and programming has reached over 2,000 students, been recognized by the NYC Department of Education, and taught in universities. In 2021, their work was recognized by the prestigious Brower Youth Award.

Alexia's Bio

Anna Siegel

Anna Siegel

Anna Siegel (she/her) is a student, climate justice activist, and birder. Having been aware of the climate crisis from a young age, Anna began her activism in middle school following the October 2018 IPCC report. Anna started Maine Youth Climate Strikes in 2019, leading global climate strikes and working with youth statewide to pass climate emergency declarations at city councils and select boards. She is a founding member of Maine Youth for Climate Justice, a statewide network of young people advocating for climate solutions. Anna is now a co-founder and the Campaigns Director of Maine Youth Action, where she works to pass bold and equitable climate policy in the Maine Legislature, implement climate emergency declarations, further divestment efforts, and fight for climate justice. Anna is also does political organizing with Sierra Club Maine and is a member of her town’s Committee for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability. Anna was selected as a 2022 Emerging Leader by the Harvard-Kennedy Institute of Politics and was a 2022 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam awardee. She is proficient and experienced with coalition-building, grassroots advocacy, political strategizing, press relations, and drafting campaign plans

Anna's Bio

Brian Gomez

Brian Gomez

Brian Gomez (he/him) grew up in Mexico City and Chicago and got involved in different restoration efforts around lakes and preserves through his local Aquarium and then through the Alliance for Climate Education. After he finished high school Brian continued to support youth organizers through an organization he co–founded Chicago Youth Alliance for Climate Action, and then he ended up studying economics and policy in college at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Post college, Brian worked with different environmental youth groups like the Sierra Student Coalition, Earth Guardians, the Sunrise Movement, and most recently with SustainUS and Sierra Club. Brian was most recently the Finance Director of the Sunrise Movement, and currently sits on the Board of the Sierra Club and SustainUS. Throughout his time in these groups, Brian has been part of many shifts towards DEI and navigating the challenges associated with doing DEI work in white-led organizations. Brian has also worked on the financial and operations aspect of the organizations and how to move forward equity around funding, financial support, and operations for low income and BIPOC individuals that want to get involved in climate movements. Brian is passionate about economic development, inclusive financial policies, and increasing access and lowering barriers for young people at the forefront of the impacts of climate change to be at the helm of decision-making. He holds a B.S in Social and Economic Development Policy and a minor in Applied Economics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He  lives in Chicago where he spends time reading, staying active, and eating good food.

Brian's Bio

Cynthia Naha

Cynthia Naha

Cynthia (she/her) is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe and is Tewa and Ihanktowan Dakota Oyate and currently reside in her traditional homes of her Tewa people in OgaPogehOwingeh or Santa Fe, NM. 


Over the past 20 years, she has worked in the Environmental Protection and Natural Resources field for several different Tribes and Pueblos located in Arizona, California, and New Mexico. Currently, she is the Director of the Environment Department for Picuris Pueblo and the former Director of the Natural Resources Department for Santo Domingo Pueblo –  both are federally recognized tribes in NM. Over the course of my tenure, she has managed 50-60 federal grants from various agencies, including a few state funded projects. Cynthia  was the USEPA Region 6 Tribal Representative on the E-Enterprise for the Environment Leadership Council, as well as the Regional Tribal Operations Committee Secretary for 2 ½ years, and held for 6 years, the Tribal Government seat for the NM Recycling and Illegal Dumping Alliance. Currently, she chairs the ad hoc committee of the New Mexico Tribal Resilience Action Network (NM TRAN). She has had the wonderful opportunity to work on everything from water resource management plans, hazardous fuels reduction, forest stands development, drought resilience, watershed assessments, nonpoint source pollution management, environmental monitoring, and much more! Prior to working with Santo Domingo Pueblo, Cynthia worked for the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of the Stewarts Point Rancheria, Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, Pinoleville Pomo Nation, and Hopland Band of Pomo Indians as well as on the Lone Pine Paiute Shoshone Reservation, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, and Intertribal Council of Arizona.

Cynthia's Bio

Nile Malloy

Nile Malloy

Nile Malloy (he/him)  is a community-centered environmental, climate and social justice strategist with experience in grantmaking, strategic planning, peer-to-peer network cultivation, coalition building, community development, affordable housing, membership association management, program development, and fiscal management.

Over the past 20 years, he has been a trainer, organizer, moderator, panelist, facilitator and coach at numerous speaking engagements focused on racial justice and community-led approaches to advocate for racial justice as an explicit core tenet in goals, vision, and program values. In addition, he has built and nurtured relationships with key collaborative partners from the nonprofit, philanthropic, academic, and governmental sectors to facilitate place-based sustainable change initiatives in several metropolitan regions.

Currently, Nile consults with philanthropic and nonprofit institutions on environmental, racial justice, climate, and social justice strategies to build equity-driven community engagement approaches, policy change and community power. Prior to consulting, Nile spent five years as the Director of the Democratizing Development Program at the Neighborhood Funders Group. As Director, he brought together hundreds of community leaders, place-based and national funders to provide learning, analysis, and mutual support around organizing the field of philanthropy and genuinely partnering with communities to support sustainable development and community leadership strategies. He also worked with funders to launch million-dollar collaborative funds and grantmaking for the Fund for an Inclusive California and Amplify Fund for Puerto Rico, California, and other key regions. Additionally, he strategized with philanthropic and nonprofit stakeholders linking gender, climate, health, and housing to BIPOC communities and implementing practical solutions.

Before joining NFG, he worked for eight years as the Northern California Director at Communities for a Better Environment, managing campaigns, and programs on climate justice, clean energy, corporate accountability, adaptation, mitigation, environmental justice, and local economic development projects. He worked to pass policies at the local, regional and state level working with city agencies, state legislators, labor unions, and corporations to be more accountable to address environmental and climate justice solutions.

He has served on the boards and steering committees, including the Oakland Climate Action Coalition, Richmond Just Transition Strategy, Climate Justice Alliance, National and California Climate Adaptation Committees, Bay Area Rapid Transit Title VI Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and Bay Localize. He holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MA from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Nile's Bio

Climate Mobilization Network Member Groups

Acton Climate Coalition,
Acton, MA

Bronx Climate Justice North,
New York, NY

Western New York Youth Climate Council,
Buffalo, NY

Charleston Climate Coalition,
Charleston, SC

Classrooms for Climate Action,
Colorado

CLEO Institute,
Florida

Climate Reality Project,
Savannah, GA

Confront the Climate Crisis,
Indiana

Council of Canadians, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Duluth Climate Mobilization,
Duluth, MN,

Extinction Rebellion Chicago,
Chicago, IL

Extinction Rebellion Richmond,
Richmond, VA

Extinction Rebellion SF Bay,
San Francisco, CA

Extinction Rebellion St. Louis,
St. Louis, MO

Fridays for Future, LA
San Gabriel/San Marino, CA

Go Green Skokie,
Skokie, IL

Grand Rapids Climate Coalition,
Grand Rapids, MI

Indigenous People of the Coastal Bend,
Corpus Christi TX

North Central Florida Indivisible,
Alachua County, FL

Kalamazoo Climate Crisis Coalition,
Kalamazoo, MI

Maine Youth for Climate Justice,
Maine

Michigan United,
Michigan 

Mobilize TO,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance,
Los Angeles, CA

NC WARN,
Durham, NC

Our Revolution Illinois,
Illinois

Protectors of the Salish Sea,
Western Washington

Resilient Denver,
Denver CO

Sacramento Climate Coalition,
Sacramento, CA

Sonoma County Climate Mobilization,
Sonoma County, CA

TCM North Jersey,
Northern New Jersey

United Student Leaders,
Whidbey Island, WA

Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility,
Tacoma, WA

Working Landscapes,
Warren County, NC

White Lake Area Climate Action Council,
Whitehall / Montague, MI

Marin Climate Emergency Resolution group,
Fairfax / Marin County, CA

Traverse City, MI Climate Emergency campaign,
Traverse City, MI

Youth Emergency Auxiliary Service Sierra Leone,
East Sierra Leone

The Climate Mobilization is building power for a national transformation that rapidly restores a safe climate and creates a just and democratic society.

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Alexia Leclerq

Network Coach

Alexia (she/they) is an environmental justice organizer based in Austin, TX. They graduated summa cum laude from NYU (’20), where they self-designed a major titled “The Politics and Economics of Inequality.” Their research focuses on political ecology, environmental justice, AAPI communities, inequality, postcolonialism. As an organizer and researcher they have spent the past 5 years working on various issues from preserving the Colorado River, water rights, fighting land use policy and zoning that enforces race-based discrimination, conducting ethnographic research on climate health, to organizing mutual aid, youth programming, and shaping national legislation alongside members of the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum and the Environmental Justice Health Alliance; today Alexia continues to work as an organizer with PODER, a grassroots EJ org. Alexia is also the co-founder of Start: Empowerment, a BIPOC led social and environmental justice education non-profit working with youth, educators, activists, and community members to implement justice-focused education and programming in schools and community spaces. S:E curriculum and programming has reached over 2,000 students, been recognized by the NYC Department of Education, and taught in universities. In 2021, their work was recognized by the prestigious Brower Youth Award.

Emmett Hopkins

Co-Leader and Director of Operations & Programs

Emmett manages operations and leads Climate Mobilization’s intersectional organizing around transportation justice, where he works with local community groups to build commitment, alignment and action among frontline constituents who rely on public transit and active transportation modes. He brings over a decade of experience collaborating with diverse stakeholders to activate power towards equitable, climate-friendly transportation systems, build mutual-aid-based community food systems, ensure equitable access to public lands, and mobilize resources towards a just transition. In 2021, Emmett developed an online platform for collaborative, community-scale visioning of a just, zero-carbon future. In 2022 he helped launch a transit riders union in Sonoma County, CA, which has engaged in mutual aid, storytelling, and a successful campaign to win fare-free buses and expanded frequency.

Suha Dabbouseh

National Organizer

National Organizer Suha Dabbouseh leads national strategy for The Climate Mobilization. They are originally from Chicago but have lived, organized and rebel-roused in seven states and 11 cities. Suha received their law degree from CUNY-School of Law where they focused on social justice lawyering representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay. While practicing law, Suha had worked to advocate on behalf of domestic violence survivors, transgender clients and fighting employment discrimination. Their passion is building people power and organizing to dismantle structural inequities.

Matt Renner

Executive Director of The Climate Mobilization

Matt has worked as a nonprofit executive in clean energy, climate policy, and journalism for over a decade, focusing on the near-term social and economic impacts of climate change. He leads organizational expansion and works closely with the communications and organizing teams. Matt earned a BA in political science from UC Berkeley, where he was deeply inspired by the work of Professor George Lakoff.

Extended Bio

Mariyah Jahangiri

Co-Leader and Network & Movement Building Director

Mariyah is a first-generation Pakistani community organizer who is on a life-long journey of working to create alternative, anti-capitalist models of collective healing, popular education, community organizing, and revolution. She has been inspired by studying social movements and organizing in many movement ecosystems and geographies – most recently in Cape Town, Iowa, Puerto Rico, Atlanta, and currently in Los Angeles. At Climate Mobilization, she is a Network Organizer where she leads programming, coaching, and other resource development for a learning hub of 43+ local decarbonization and climate justice campaigns. She also develops strategy for youth, BIPOC-led, climate movements alongside the Network Support Team at Power Shift Network, and is currently leading a Pakistani collective spearheading political education on the need for climate reparations to the Global South and coordinating grassroots fundraising for Pakistan flood relief efforts. She also recently organized with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network to base-build in Wilmington and San Pedro alongside low-income API communities most impacted by extractive industries in Los Angeles.

Rebecca Harris

Co-Leader and Director of Resource Mobilization

Rebecca has been with Climate Mobilization since 2019 leading our organizing efforts. In this role, she has coached dozens of local climate groups, coordinated organizing trainings, and launched the campaign for a national Climate Emergency Declaration. In July 2021, she collaborated with Acton, MA residents to launch Housing and Climate Justice for Acton, a renters rights and climate justice group led by public housing and Section 8 renters and other low-income residents, and has already won several campaigns. Along with a history of social movement organizing, Rebecca previously worked as a journalist covering equity in Chicago public schools and as the Development and Communications Manager at Latino Union of Chicago, an immigrants’ and workers’ rights organization. She is a 2017 graduate of the Reframe Mentorship in strategic communications and a 2019 participant in the Anne Braden Organizer Training Program.

Marina Mails

Co-Leader and Director of Operations
Marina manages operations and volunteers for both The Climate Mobilization and Climate Mobilization Project. She brings broad experience working in non-profit organizations, health care settings, and running her own private counseling practice. Before joining Climate Mobilization, Marina maintained a practice focusing exclusively on climate-related emotional coping, helping people make bold choices for lifestyle and professional change in response to the Climate Emergency. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish from Wake Forest University and a Masters in Counseling from UNC Greensboro.

Meghann Beer

Co-Leader and Director of Resource Mobilization and Strategy

Meghann brings more than 20 years of nonprofit management and fundraising experience to The Climate Mobilization and Climate Mobilization Project. For over a decade Meghann has worked as a nonprofit consultant helping organizations expand their capacity, secure revenue, develop successful strategies, and effectively evaluate their programs, enabling them to create greater positive change in the world. She has also worked as an executive director, designed and facilitated international service learning experiences, and taught university courses in fundraising and nonprofit management. Meghann earned a MPA in Nonprofit Management and Comparative and International Affairs from The School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, in Bloomington, IN and a BA in Art History and American Studies from Tufts University in Boston, MA.

Cris Lagunas

Strategy Director

Cris is helping to grow the Climate Emergency Movement by supporting creative campaigns and extending the reach of the movement’s message. Cris is a co-founder of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, an organization dedicated to using direct action tactics to expose, challenge and dismantle the immigration detention system.Cris got his start in organizing when he was 15 years old, getting involved in a local group of fellow undocumented youth.

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Zack Burley

Policy Associate

Zack provides policy support for the Climate Mobilization team, and brings a versatile set of policy skills and experiences in labor organizing, journalism, legislative politics, and legal practice to the climate emergency movement. Zack earned a JD from Denver University Sturm College of Law, is a founding organizer of the Political Workers Guild of Colorado, and formerly served as a legislative aide in the Colorado General Assembly.

AriDy Nox

Co-Leader and Director of Narrative Strategy

 AriDy Nox is a multi-disciplinary black femme storyteller and social activist with a variety of forward-thinking creative works under her/their belt. They create out of the vehement belief that creating a future in which marginalized peoples are free requires a radical imagination. Their tales are offerings intended to function as small parts of an ancient, expansive, awe-inspiring tradition of world-shaping, created by and for black femmes. They have over a decade of experience as a young social activist and organizer, within reproductive justice and racial justice frameworks with organizations like the Young Women of Color Leadership Council with Advocates for Youth, the Toni Cade Bamabara Collective at Spelman College and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. They bring creativity, enthusiasm and a tremendous capacity for organization to her/their role and deep belief that times of apocalypse are opportunities for rebirth. We need first imagine the world we want in order to create it.