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Jo Banner, Co-Founder & Co-Director, The Descendants Project

Jo banner co-founded The Descendants Project, where she channels her affection and knowledge into challenging systems, primarily legal systems that have exploited the descendants, such as herself, of those enslaved to plantations. She is now working to gain recognition of the burial grounds of the enslaved as sacred sites and aims to protect such sites and their communities from degradation, especially degradation caused by heavy industry.

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Ramón Cruz, Sierra Club, Brooklyn, New York & Puerto Rico

Ramón Cruz has over 20 years of experience intersecting the fields of sustainability, environmental policy, urban planning, energy and climate change. He has worked in the public sector in his native Puerto Rico as the Deputy Director of the Environmental Quality Board, the state environmental regulatory agency and as Commissioner of the Puerto Rico Energy Commission.

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Bill McKibben, 350.org, Middlebury, Vermont

Bill McKibben is founder and senior adviser emeritus of 350.org. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages.

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Kirstie Pecci, Just Zero, Sturbridge, Massachussetts

Kirstie Pecci is the Executive Director of Just Zero. Previously, she was the Zero Waste Project and a Senior Attorney at Conservation Law Foundation. Kirstie is a former MASSPIRG Staff Attorney actively engaged in waste reduction and opposing the expansion of landfill and incinerator capacity.

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Patti Wood, Grassroots Environmental Education, Port Washington, New York

Patti Wood is founder and executive director of Grassroots Environmental Education, an award-winning not-for-profit environmental health organization whose mission is to inform the public about the health risks of common environmental exposures and to empower individuals to act as catalysts for change in their own communities. 

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Dan Xie, Student PIRGs, St. Petersburg, Florida

Dan began her career in college as a student leader with CALPIRG, where she helped to bring high-speed rail to California. In her current role she directs the national political strategy for the Student PIRGs.

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