2nd Americas Latino Eco Festival

Javier Sierra is a bilingual media consultant and nationally syndicatedcolumnist for the Sierra Club.His monthly column about Latinos and the environment is regularly publishedby the country's top bilingual publications, including Los Angeles' La Opinion, and New York City's El Diario-La Prensa... Read More →

Jennifer joined the League of Conservation Voters in April 2013 to expand LCV's Latino support base in the fight against climate change. In 2017 she became the Senior VP for a new LCV department, Community and Civic Engagement. Jennifer has over twenty-five years of experience in... Read More →

Paty Romero-Lankao is an "interdisciplinary sociologist", and a Scientist at NCAR currently leading the "Urban Futures" initiative there (http://www.ral.ucar.edu/csap/themes/urbanfutures.php). Cities are key players in the climate arena as emitters of GHG, vulnerability hotspots and crucibles of innovation, and her research explores the dynamics of urbanization that shape urban emissions, vulnerabilities and risk. She has also analyzed why and how urban populations and decision makers attempt to me... Read More →

Adrianna works at NRDC as their Senior Attorney, but began as a litigator with their environmental health program, where she specialized in public health issues surrounding safe drinking water, bottled water, pesticides and toxic air pollution. Adrianna has appeared on numerous English... Read More →

Rod Torrez was born in Williams, Arizona, and has lived most of his life in the West. Love for the outdoors and an ethic to care for the land was instilled in him during his childhood in Arizona and Colorado, where he learned to enjoy hiking, camping, fishing, hunting and cross-country... Read More →