Aina is a Nigerian-American immigrant who found her calling as a systems interventionist and has built her multi-faceted career on making innovation more just and impactful. Aina is currently the President and Executive Director of VertueLab, a Pacific Northwest center for developing and deploying climate tech with a justice-first lens. In her previous work as a social impact strategist, Aina worked with historically marginalized communities across the globe to ensure real impact in health, tech and finance outcomes on projects by clients ranging from Meta, Logitech, Merck and Novartis to The Obama Foundation.

Andrea is an advocate and filmmaker whose work is inspired by social and environmental issues at the intersection of the natural world and health. As the Program Manager for Resource Legacy Fund’s Ocean, Coast, and Fisheries programs, she shapes and oversees projects that advance coastal conservation, climate resilience, and equitable coastal access. She has over a decade of experience supporting advocate networks as well as efforts to bring public and philanthropic funding to frontline communities.

Christina is a freedom fighter and truth teller who understand the importance of centering Black and Brown voices in the environmental justice movement. Christina currently serves as the Vice President Operations, Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE). PSE advances policies and institutional actions that promote racial equity and shared prosperity for all in the growth of metropolitan Atlanta and the American South. She is PSE’s staff lead for the Just 40 Accelerator. The Justice40 Accelerator seeks to leverage the Biden-Harris Administration's Justice40 commitment to radically reimagine the existing government resource delivery system as a restorative and reparative framework that better supports Black and historically disinvested communities of color.

Michael is a Climate Policy Activist who has devoted his life to advocating for Energy Justice and seeing an equitable Clean Energy Economy transition in Black Communities. Michael is the Co-Founder of Klean Energy Kulture. This not-for-profit production company partners with Billboard Topping Hit Music Artists to accelerate awareness of the Clean Energy Transition in Black Communities. Over the last decade, Michael has led pivotal campaigns that successfully generated awareness and engagement in Communities of Color, resulting in substantial participation in Climate Change Advocacy. These leadership experiences include being Georgia’s Deputy Field Director for Barack Obama's first Presidential Campaign, Vice President Al Gore's Repower America Campaign, Greenpeace, and the Beyond Coal Campaign with the Sierra Club.

Shaun is a Turtle Mountain Chippewa citizen, and has been working to reduce the intergenerational, intractable poverty in Native America and the associated psychological and physical stress and resulting addiction outlets by building strong, independent tribal economies for over 25 years. She focuses on reducing regulatory barriers to access capital so tribes can build the infrastructure needed to support responsible development on tribal lands. Shaun actualized the Administration’s commitment to allocate 40% of the benefits from the clean energy transition into historically underserved communities by developing renewable energy on tribal lands. She now works for the federal government and currently serves as the Director of Native Affairs and Economic Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Secretary’s Office.