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Detailed Agenda
FRIDAY « FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Bill Magavern
Coalition for Clean Air
Bill Magavern joined CCA in 2012 and serves as Policy Director, based
in Sacramento. An environmental advocate since 1988, Magavern
worked as Staff Attorney for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group,
Director of Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy Project, Sacramento
Director of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, and Director of Sierra Club
California. He has authored numerous reports and articles on energy
and environmental issues, and testifies frequently before the state
legislature, Air Resources Board, and other agencies. Magavern received
his J.D. from SUNY-Buffalo Law School and his bachelor’s degree in
American civilization from Brown University.

Jacqueline Patterson
NAACP
Currently the NAACP director of environmental and climate justice,
Jacqui Patterson, M.S.W., M.P.H., has served as a trainer, organizer,
researcher, and policy analyst on international and domestic issues
including women’s rights, HIV & AIDS, violence against women, racial
justice, economic justice, and environmental and climate justice.
Patterson authored multiple articles including: “Jobs vs Health: An
Unnecessary Dilemma,” “Energy Democracy, Black Lives Matter, and the
NAACP Advocacy Agenda,” “Climate Change is a Civil Rights Issue,” “And
the People Shall Lead: Centralizing Frontline Community Leadership,” and
more. She serves on the boards of directors for the Center for Story Based Strategy, the Institute of
the Black World, and U.S. Climate Action Network, as well as on steering committees for Interfaith
Moral Action on Climate and on the advisory board for the Center for Earth Ethics.

Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Miya Yoshitani is the executive director of the Asian Pacific
Environmental Network (APEN). She has an extensive background
in community organizing, and a long history of working in the
environmental justice movement. APEN has been fighting—and winning—
environmental justice struggles for the past 23 years and works to
develop the leadership and power of low-income Asian American and
Pacific Islander immigrant and refugee communities. Through many years
of leadership, Yoshitani has supported APEN’s growth and expansion
from a powerful local organization in the Bay Area to an organization
with a statewide impact, through an integrated API voter engagement strategy, a statewide
Asian Pacific American Climate Coalition, and winning transformational state policy for equitable
climate solutions and transitioning the state to a clean energy economy for all Californians.

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