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Detailed Agenda
SUNDAY « FEBRUARY 21, 2016

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
STRATEGY DISCUSSION – POLICY ACTION PLANS AND COLLECTIVE ACTION
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM
LUNCH PLENARY
CLIMATE CHANGE AS A PROGRESSIVE AND JUSTICE VALUE

ColorOfChange.org was created in the devastating aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina. We will hear from Executive Director and civil rights leader Rashad
Robinson on how issues of energy and the environment speak directly to our
values—and call on all of us to act—as progressives.
Rashad Robinson
ColorOfChange.org

2:00 PM
CLOSING

Clean Energy & Environmental Justice Policy Academy | 2016

Rashad Robinson serves as executive director of ColorOfChange.org.
For the past four years, Robinson has continued to build a memberdriven movement around the issues that matter most to Black folks.
Under Robinson’s leadership, ColorOfChange.org developed and led a
national campaign against the American Legislative Exchange Council
(ALEC). After exposing ALEC’s involvement in passing discriminatory
voter ID and deadly Stand Your Ground laws, ColorOfChange.org pushed
over 100 corporations to end their financial support of ALEC. Robinson
has appeared in hundreds of news stories, interviews, and political
discussions on outlets including ABC, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. He was recently selected as one
of EBONY Magazine’s Power 100 honorees for 2015. Prior to his work at ColorOfChange.org,
Robinson served as senior director of media programs at GLAAD, where he led the organization’s
programmatic and advocacy work to transform the representation of LGBT people in news and
entertainment media.

Speaker biographies are descriptive and for background only and do not in any way endorse or oppose any specific
legislation, project, or candidates mentioned.
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