Green organizations' progress on hiring people of color in senior roles stagnates, highlighting the challenges in diversity and inclusion in the environmental sector.
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/PRNewswire/ Green 2.0 – the independent campaign working to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the green movement – today released its sixth annual.
Beyond “Checking the Box” Laurie Mazur
December 11, 2020
In July, Andrés Jimenez took the helm at Green 2.0, an independent advocacy campaign to increase racial diversity among environmental organizations. Previously, Jimenez served as senior director of government affairs at Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL), and as associate director of government relations at Ocean Conservancy. The timing was right, as the nation engaged in a long-overdue reckoning with racism that prompted considerable soul-searching within the (very white) mainstream environmental movement. Here, Jimenez talks with Laurie Mazur of the Island Press Urban Resilience Project about progress made, challenges unmet, and reasons for hope.
“There needs to be an understanding that organizations need to change from bottom to top,” says Andres Jiminez, Green 2.0’s new executive director. Photo provided.