Learn more about Britteny Jenkins, CLF’s Vice President for Environmental Justice. Photo: Adilson González Morales.
Britteny Jenkins, CLF’s new vice president for environmental justice, brings a vast wealth of expertise in policy and advocacy. She will lead our transportation, climate justice, and zero waste efforts.
What does environmental justice mean to you?
Britteny Jenkins: For me, environmental justice starts by acknowledging that the way we’ve historically worked to push development and environmental policies in the U.S. has been plagued with racism – from the placement of landfills to where we decide to build a highway.
From this perspective, environmental justice means asking the right questions to help us see beyond solutions. We must certainly fight pollution and electrify our transit. But we must lead by asking: “How can we move these solutions forward…