Nia Robinson
Director
Activist in Residence, Bennett College, Greensboro, NC
e: nia [@] ejcc.org
Nia Robinson, an inaugural Climate Justice Corps Fellow (2003), brings her skills, commitment, and passion for organizing to EJCC. Her transition from concerned citizen to the helm of EJCC demonstrates her commitment to EJCC’s core work. Before joining EJCC, she was an organizer and labor relations representative with Service Employees International Union and a program organizer with the Earth Tomorrow Program of the National Wildlife Federation. Ms. Robinson hails from Detroit, MI, home of Mototown, GM and some of the nation’s worst indicators of community and environmental health.
Kari Fulton
Youth Climate Justice Coordinator
Washington, D.C. Office
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p: 202. 340. 0976
e: kari [@) ejcc [.] org
As EJCC’s Youth Climate Justice Coordinator, Kari works on supporting and mobilizing the new generation of young leaders for climate justice. Through EJCC’s partnership with the Energy Action Coalition, Fulton works to engage students and faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities on campus sustainability and sustainable education. She is a recipient of the 2008 Brower Youth Award (Earth Island Institute New Leaders Initiative), Damu Smith “Power of One” Young Professional Award and a Senior Fellow of People for The American Way’s Young People For program. During high school and while attending Howard University, Ms. Fulton worked diligently to improve educational standards as a student leader, AmeriCorp member and tutor in public schools. Ms.Fulton is a 2007 alumna of the John H. Johnson School of Communications at Howard University. In February of 2010, Fulton was named one of a 100 African American History Makers in the Making by NBC and thegrio.com. Her most recent writings can be found at http://checktheweather.net/
Oriana Bolden
Media and Strategic Communications Manager
Oakland, CA Office
e: oriana [@] ejcc [.] org
p: 510. 473. 7306
Oriana Bolden has traversed the globe with camera in hand and laptop charged. She is ever ready to share the tools of production as well as the historic context in which media and communications are Human Rights. Her experience ranges from Associate Editor of The Commemorator, the community newspaper of the Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party, CCBPP, to Field Producer and Reporter for Free Speech TV. As a founding member of media justice collective Third World Majority, TWM, Bolden honed her skills as a facilitator of stories. Her short documentaries and other strides toward media justice can be found at www.reelchange.org
