Adrien Salazar
Adrien Salazar is a climate justice advocate who has fought for transformative and equitable climate policy, food and land justice, and environmental justice for over twelve years. He is Policy Director at Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Chairs the Filipino American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity, and serves on the board of the Sustainable Economies Law Center. He convenes the Green New Deal Policy Nexus network of movement leaders and policy experts to advance climate justice policy and strategy. As a member of the NY Renews Coalition he supported the development and passage of New York’s 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. He co-authored the Indigenous People’s Land Management chapter of Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever to Reverse Global Warming (2017, Penguin Press). His work focuses on redistributive and reparative investments, racial equity in climate policy, and land and resource governance.