Climate Justice Taskforce

Created as a partnership between IEN's Net Zero Endowments & JEDI (justice, equity, diversity & inclusion) initiatives, IEN's Climate Justice Taskforce has two prime objectives. First, this Taskforce is designed to increase awareness about socioeconomic issues stemming from and exacerbated by climate change. This Taskforce is also focused on sharing thought leadership, best practices, and opportunities for impact in the process of making a just transition to a regenerative economy. Through December 2025, IEN's Climate Justice Taskforce will support the development of a new IEN project titled "Leading with Justice 2.0" - a series of resources which will address various socioeconomic issues intensified by climate change while highlighting financial opportunities for investors that come with meaningful action.

This project will build on IEN's paper, "Leading with Justice: Net Zero Investing & Conversations on Climate Justice," which defines climate justice & demonstrates how it's central to achieving net-zero goals (published in 2022 by a subcommittee of IEN's Net Zero Endowments Leadership Committee). With an overview of climate justice established in the first Leading with Justice paper, Leading with Justice 2.0 will take a deeper dive into climate justice by exploring the following themes:

IEN Climate Justice Taskforce Members:

Adriana Becerra Cid, Sustainable Investing Lead for Private Markets, Lombard Odier Investment Managers
Martha Buckley, Senior Manager, Sunwealth
Blythe Coleman-Mumford, Sustainable Justice Scholars Project Manager, Sustain Our Future Foundation
Felicia Davis, Founder, HBCU Green Fund
Richard Gragg, Professor, Florida A&M University (FAMU)
Tracy Gray, Founder & Managing Partner, The 22Fund
Ivy Jack, Senior Advisor, Diverse Investing Collective
Kaede Kawauchi, Senior Manager of the Investor Network, Ceres
Hailey Knowles, Senior Account Manager, Capital Markets, CDP North America
Delicia Nahman, Sustainability Director, Lafayette College
Dorien Nuñez, Co-founder/Director of Research, OmniResearch & Senior Fellow / JEDI Initiative Co-Chair, IEN
Kem Opperman-Torres, Sustainability Director, Dillard University
Paul Rissman, Co-founder, Rights CoLab
Kathleen Simpson, CEO, The Russell Family Foundation (TRFF)
Kendra Sharp, Strategy Analyst, UNCF
Charlotte Taylor, Graduate Student, University of British Colombia
Enith Williams, Founder & Executive Director, Reparations Finance Lab
Micaela Young, Director of Development, Piikani Health Lodge Institute
Julianne Zimmerman, Co-CEO, Adasina Social Capital