Elizabeth Yeampierre is an internationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney and environmental and climate justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry born and raised in New York City. Elizabeth is the co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance and Executive Director of UPROSE, Brooklyn’s oldest Latino community-based organization. She is a long-time advocate and trailblazer for community organizing around just, sustainable development, environmental justice, and community-led climate adaptation and community resiliency in Sunset Park.