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" - resources focused on how allocators can impactfully advance climate justice through mindset & capital, engaging with, empowering & learning from frontline communities.

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 how allocators can collaborate with & learn from frontline communities to: support capacity building through community engagement & development, aid in the creation of sustainable & generational wealth generation among frontline communities, expand the scale of impact through a global lenses, and more.

Read the Leading with Justice Paper

Climate Justice Taskforce Members:

Annie Chor Joyce - Head of ESG, Amundi US & Board Member, Phi Beta Kappa Foundation
Blythe Coleman-Mumford - Climate Programs Manager: HBCU/MSI Engagement, Second Nature
Charlotte Taylor - Graduate Student, University of British Colombia
Delicia Nahman - Sustainability Director, Lafayette College
Dorien Nuñez - Co-founder/Director of Research, OmniResearch & IEN Senior Fellow
Felicia Davis - Founder, HBCU Green Fund
Ivy Jack - Senior Advisor, Diverse Investing Collective
Julianne Zimmerman - Managing Director, Adasina Social Capital
Kathleen Simpson - CEO, The Russell Family Foundation (TRFF)
Kem Opperman-Torres - Sustainability Director, Dillard University
Kendra Sharp - Strategy Analyst, UNCF
Martha Buckley - Senior Manager, Sunwealth
Mehtap Yacgi - Capital Markets Account Manager, CDP North America
Micaela Young - Director of Development, Piikani Health Lodge Institute
Paul Rissman - Co-founder, Rights CoLab
Pedro Henriques da Silva - Director of Shifting Trillions, Sierra Club Foundation
Richard Gragg - Professor, Florida A&M University (FAMU)
Tracy Gray - Founder & Managing Partner, The 22Fund
Taskforce Lead: Aicha Ly - Program Manager, Climate Justice & Events, IEN
Taskforce Lead: Paris Prince - Senior Director, Partnerships & Strategic Initiatives, IEN