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Equity Update
Chapter Leaders
By Kira Liu
Chapter and National Staff
Michele Brooks
Boston Lead Organizer
In 2020 and 2021, the Massachusetts Chapter
Staff, with support from the Executive Committee
and Volunteers, put together a series of short-term
and long-term goals to guide our commitment and
practice of equity at the chapter. This became known
as our Equity & Justice Roadmap.
In the past year, chapter staff have revisited these
goals to update progress, clarify outcomes, and
set intentions for work moving forward, with new
expanded capacity as we created four new positions
on our team in 2023.
We want to acknowledge this process and the
current iteration of the roadmap as foundational to
our work, and hope that we can continue to update
and revise our goals as our Chapter takes concrete
steps to align our work with the movement for social
justice.
We are excited to share an 2023 updated version of
the Equity & Justice Roadmap and a few updates on
progress in the last year:
• We identified two new Solidarity Campaigns:
Homes for All MA and the Indigenous Legislative
Agenda.
• Created a volunteer communications team to
add capacity to create and share anti-racism and
equity resources and content across our social
media accounts.
• The Chapter has continued to center the
Springfield Climate Justice Coalition’s voice in
Springfield-Longmeadow Pipeline advocacy.
In June, in response to a Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission meeting about “winter
grid reliability,” the Sierra Club supported the
organizing of a rally in Everett by community
members affected by one of the plants under
discussion. On behalf of community members,
chapter staff drafted a media advisory and press
release for the rally.
• Incorporated provisions from the Equity and
Justice Roadmap into staff workplans for all nine
full time Chapter staff and one intern.
• Hosted a quarterly New Volunteer Orientation
call, incorporating Jemez principles, chapter
equity goals, and justice into the discussion and
framing of our work.
To learn more about our Equity and Justice Roadmap,
or to get involved in the process, please reach out to
Kira Liu at kira.liu@sierraclub.org
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Emma Brown
Digital Strategist
Veena Dharmaraj
Director of Transportation
Nick Katkevich
Campaign Representative
Sam Lambert
Political and Municipal Organizer
Kira Liu
Chapter Coordinator
Daniel McCarthy
Transportation and Toxics Coordinator
Vick Mohanka
Acting State Director
Jess Nahigian
State Political Director
Allyson Samuell
Northeast Organizing Representative
Celeste Venolia
Forest Protection Coordinator
Chapter Executive Committee
Mallorie Barber, Secretary
Jenny Daniell
Arthur Desloges
Celia Doremus, Chair
Alan Gordon
Laura MacLeod
Morgan Peck
Clint Richmond
Kannan Thiruvengadam, Vice Chair
Reverend Vernon K. Walker
Cape Cod Group Executive Committee
David Dow, Treasurer
Diane LeDuc, Secretary
Keith Lewison, Vice Chair
Morgan Peck
Chris Powicki, Chair
Mary Waygan
Allyson Schmidt
