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LaTricea Adams leads Young, Gifted & Green, a national environmental justice and civil rights organization that advocates against the crisis of lead exposure and environmental injustice in disadvantaged communities. Prior to her environmental justice leadership, Adams served as a K-12 public educator for 16 years. LaTricea was the youngest African American woman appointed to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. She is a past president of the Memphis Urban League Young Professionals and Thursday Network— Greater Washington Urban League. Adams is the recipient of the National Urban League Young Professionals Award and the Children’s Environmental Health Network Child Health Advocate Award. She founded Tennessee’s first Lead Prevention Commission and was featured on BET’s docuseries “Finding Justice.”