Grassroots Mobilizing for Environmental Justice

Mar 12, 2023

4:00pm – 5:00pm CT

Recording: Grassroots Mobilizing for Environmental Justice, Mar 12, 2023

As the largest urban oil field in the US, Los Angeles has thousands of active oil wells disproportionately located in Latino and Black neighborhoods, causing serious health problems for residents. Goldman Environmental Prize winner and community activist Nalleli Cobo has dedicated her life to taking action.
Since age 9, she has been organizing. At age 19, she led a coalition to permanently shut down a toxic oil-drilling site that was making her and her community sick. Next, she helped lead efforts to change city and county policy to ban new oil exploration and phase out existing sites in LA.
This session will explore Nalleli’s inspirational journey, and how we can all effect change through activism to protect our communities—and the planet—from fossil fuels and the climate crisis.

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photo of Nalleli Cobo
Nalleli Cobo

South Los Angeles Youth Leadership Coalition

photo of Laura Fernandez
Laura Fernandez

Goldman Environmental Prize

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