Northcoast Environmental Justice Coalition Town Hall

Please join the Northcoast EJC for our first quarterly town hall.

Who is the Northcoast EJC?

Northcoast Environmental Justice Coalition is a group of Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and organizations who are making a difference to support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the environmental movement in our rural location. We are excited to invite you to our upcoming community town hall and EJ coalition launch event. Where we will center BIPOC knowledge and voices in the Environmental Movement. Allies are welcome!

Town Hall Highlights

-Screening of Sowing Seeds: Racial Justice and the Environmental Movement

-Environmental Themed Arts and Crafts, Music, and Poetry

-Art and Performances By BIPOC Artists

-Afro Ecological Knowledge and Plant Medicine

-Latinx Cultural Ecologies, Farming and TEK

-Indigenous Food/Land Sovereignty and TEK

-Presentations by Local BIPOC Environmentalists and Organizations

Our Organization's Guiding Purpose:

Pathways of Purpose (POP) seeks to empower youth and the community to dream big for their lives and the world by providing asset-based, STEAM educational and vocational programs. POP will address the growing risks of climate change, social and economic inequities with movement building towards sustainable systems. Our programs foster equity, opportunity, accessibility, safety, and sovereignty for frontline communities.

Our Linktree https://linktr.ee/pathwaysofpurpose

More About POP:

We are a BIPOC and Women founded nonprofit, providing STEAM educational and vocational pathways in Humboldt County. Our work centers land and food sovereignty, economic, social, and environmental justice for frontline communities. We support communities of color, women, LGBTQIA2S+, people with disabilities, and other historically underserved people. Our storytelling work helps historically underserved frontline communities advocate, protect, and lead the way forward to address the issues we face due to climate change.

Additional Details:

We will screen a short docuseries, created by our Co-Founder Aerin Monroe, called Sowing Seeds: Racial Justice and the Environmental Movement, made possible with funding and support from Save California Salmon. The purpose of the docuseries is to amplify the voices of Black, Indigenous, Communities of Color and their fight for Environmental Justice in California.

See the work here: https://www.pathwaysofpurpose.org/media-work

Aerin won a Climate Justice award from Tavis Smiley’s production company KBLA Talk 1580. https://kbla1580.com/black-history-month-honorees/