The State Energy and Environmental Impact Center is an independent non-partisan academic center that supports state attorneys general in their environmental work. In this guest blog post, the Center highlights the perspectives of attorneys of color from the Building Power in the Environmental Movement series, and looks ahead to the next event in the series, which will focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and anti-racism in the environmental public sector.

Juliana Ojeda is the Program Associate at Green 2.0 where she works to support administrative and programmatic operations of the organization. She is a graduate of the University of Florida earning Bachelor’s in Political Science and a minor in Anthropology. Juliana began with Green 2.0 as a 2021 fall fellow. In her first blog for Green 2.0, she writes about what Latina Equal Pay Day means to her.

Youth Jobs Connect, a technology-based nonprofit, was founded in response to the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 and a current inequitable workforce system that has excluded many young people, namely Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (QTBIPOC). This guest blog post by the organization’s founder and CEO Mitali Chakraborty details five ways employers can engage all youth in a post pandemic new economy.

Greenhouse is a communications agency with a mission to power positive change. In this guest blog post with Green 2.0, Joe Dillon and Gabriella Smith from Greenhouse Communications discuss the agency’s work in the U.K. environmental sector and how to better address the climate crisis in advance of next month’s 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). Last spring Greenhouse featured Green 2.0 Executive Director Andres Jimenez in a profile on green pioneers.

Friends of the National Zoo (FONZ) was unable to make it through the pandemic closure and separated from the Smithsonian National Zoo in February 2021. Now rebranded and relaunched as Conservation Nation, Green 2.0 Communications Manager Raviya Ismail discusses the next iteration of FONZ with Conservation Nation CEO Lynn Mento.