Maria Reyes

The Point Hub Advocate

Maria Reyes serves as the Climate Justice Hub Advocate at The Point CDC. She draws from her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies with a minor in Growth and Structure of Cities from Haverford College. Prior to joining the Hub team, Maria worked as an intern at an engineering consulting firm focusinge on building decarbonization. In this role, she gained familiarity with local climate policy and screening multi-family buildings for renewable energy and retrofit opportunities.

Maria sees the climate justice movement as an opportunity to call out and mobilize for multiple injustices at once. As a Bronx native, the citywide spatial, social, economic, and health disparities have always been apparent to her, but it wasn’t until learning about environmental and climate Justice that she understood how these overlapping forms of oppression are by design. In her work, she seeks to amplify community voices and build local power to enact transformative change. 

As a hub advocate, Maria is excited to be an intermediary between the community and an academic institution to leverage the strengths of both groups. To go far in this climate movement and remedy the legacy of injustice, local expertise needs to be held at the same importance as academic knowledge, as this respect and trust can pave the way for solidarity.

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