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Latinas Leading Change for Climate Justice and Solutions
Workshop Speakers 
Tere Almaguer, an Environmental Justice Organizer at PODER (a San Francisco-based non profit that works with Latino immigrant families and youth to find people-powered, locally-based, environmentally just solutions) for 15+ years, coordinating its youth leadership program (among other projects), is currently working with the Urban Campesino Program developing the community-led Crocker Amazon Farm.
Valeria Brabata, Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Global Fund For Women, has been a senior consultant to such clients as the MacArthur and WK Kellogg foundations, the HIV/AIDS Alliance, the Planned Parenthood Federation, and the Mexican Ministry of Health. She sits on several NGO boards and advisory bodies and co-founded Senderos para el Desarrollo Comunitario, a Mexican sustainable development non-profit.
Lisa Hoyos co-founded and directs Climate Parents, a national organization mobiizing parents and families for climate and clean energy solutions. For the last 20+ years, she has campaigned in the labor, environmental and EJ movements, working with organizations including the AFL-CIO, the BlueGreen Alliance, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and Greenpeace. She serves on the San Francisco Environment Commission. Lisa is Latina and...
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Leila Salazar-López is Executive Director of Amazon Watch, which stands with indigenous people in defense of the Amazon rainforest and Mother Earth. For 20+ years, she has been a passionate community, corporate accountability and international solidarity activist working with organizations including Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network. She is a proud Chicana-Latina living in San Francisco's Mission district and mother of 2.
