Felicia Young, environmental activist and community organizer, is passionate about using the arts to help NYC residents address climate change and demand government action.
An Earth Celebrations mobile mural. (Earth Celebrations)
Over the past several decades, community-organizer-slash-environmental activist Felicia Young has had several epiphanies about the importance of art in fomenting progressive social change. As the founder and executive director of Earth Celebrations, a 30-year-old New York City-based group that brings diverse constituencies together to support community gardens and promote urban ecology, Young is passionate about using the arts dance, music, theater and an array of visual mediums to help city residents address escalating climate change and demand government action in support of sustainable development.