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Appendix C: Community and Tribal Liaison Biographies
Appendix C: Community and Tribal Liaison Biographies
Pages 52-64
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Over the past five years, he has served on multiple advisory boards and working groups, including the EPA Environmental Justice Screen Tool Data Gaps and Sources Working Group, the NAACP Ohio Environmental Justice Advisory Board, the Buckeye Environmental Network, and the City of Shaker Heights Tree Advisory Board, and he serves on the EPA Environmental Justice Science and Analysis Review Panel and the Environmental Justice Screen Science Advisory Board from 2023 to 2024.
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NOEGIC is based in a community that faces food insecurities, affordable housing issues, climate change, environmental justice issues, workforce development crisis, and educational issues. NOEGIC's mission is to equip residents with the knowledge and tools to manage stormwater where it falls, effectively reducing flooding, enhancing community resilience, promoting environmental stewardship, and improving the quality of life for all residents by fostering innovative solutions for stormwater management and the urban heat island effect.
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Cohen and her coalition lead the development of the currently in-progress Cumulative Health Impacts and Resilience Plan, driven by frontline community leaders with support from dozens of public health interagency and academic technical partners. The goal of this group is to envision collective action to achieve an actionable cumulative impact assessment study design and roadmap for resilience investments and interventions.
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Hadayia is the Executive Director of Air Alliance Houston, the longest running advocacy nonprofit singularly focused on the public health impacts of air pollution in the Greater Houston Area. She has worked for more than 25 years in public health and health equity with state and county health departments and nonprofit organizations in five states and the District of Columbia.
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Linder is a Professor in the Department of Management, Policy and Community Health at the School of Public Health of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He serves as Director of the Institute for Health Policy and as Co-Director, Community Engagement, Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Research.
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His years of collaboration and knowledge of environmental enforcement, environmental laws, local, state, and federal air pollution research, community engagement, and crowdsourcing data make him a trusted community expert in the movement. Martinez has participated in multimedia enforcement (water, air, soil)
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As sovereign nations, tribes have the right and responsibility to govern their lands and environment to safeguard them for future generations. As a California tribal citizen herself, Medina is deeply concerned with tribal environmental health issues in California, such as clean air, healthy indoor air quality, food safety, vector-borne and communicable diseases, safe drinking water, fish and wildlife habitats, water contamination, and climate change.
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Upcoming research will explore a variety of community engagement approaches, governance structures, climate finance, and gray and green infrastructure. Nelson is an active member of the Cape Ann Climate Coalition, a grassroots advocacy group with a mission to advance climate action.
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. He is particularly interested in climate change–related social equity and community health concerns including food security, flooding, heat health, and financial resilience.
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Raymond Sweet is a Climate Coordinator based in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a dedicated focus on the Hollygrove-Dixon neighborhood. His primary efforts are concentrated on community engagement to address issues such as the urban heat island effect, extreme weather events, and increased rainfall.
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from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health in Epidemiology with minors in environmental science and biostatistics. Inyang Uwak is the Research and Policy Director for Air Alliance Houston (AAH)
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Her work during the past four years has engaged several overburdened communities in California's Bay Area, Central Valley, and Salton Sea regions as the state's primary community air protection toxicologist. Her responsibilities include assessing health benefits of community emissions reduction plans and considering cumulative exposures of multiple chemical and nonchemical stressors in addressing communities' disparate health outcomes.
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