jpatterson23@nul.org

Jacqueline Patterson heads the Chisholm Legacy Project, a resource hub for Black climate justice leadership. Previously, she served as senior director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, where she led a team that supported political education and organizing work executed by NAACP branches, chapters, and state conferences. She was coordinator and co-founder of Women of Color United, senior women’s rights policy analyst for ActionAid, and assistant VP of HIV/AIDS programs for IMA World Health. Patterson has published multiple articles, reports, and book chapters on climate justice. She currently serves on the advisory boards for Center for Earth Ethics and the Hive Fund for Gender and Climate Justice, and the boards of directors for the Just Solutions Collective and the National Black Workers Center Project.