From Climate Justice Hub
Partners
Overview
The NYC Climate Justice Hub would not be possible without the commitment of our participating partners and collaborators who serve the Hub in multiple capacities: from the NYC-EJA member organizations who are central to the initiative by setting the climate justice priorities and research agendas, to CUNY campuses and their personnel directing resources to serve those agendas, to our collaborators who support the Hub by amplifying its mission and providing the tools necessary to spread the word.
Community Partners
El Puente
Based out of Williamsburg and Bushwick for the past 41 years, El Puente bridges the worlds of health, education, and the arts with activism and community empowerment. Initially founded to address youth violence, El Puente’s work is broad – spanning the creation of the first human rights high school in the US to co-founding NYC-EJA, the Latino Commission on AIDS, and the Vieques Island protests in Puerto Rico.
The Point CDC
Based out of Hunts Point for the past 29 years, The Point’s programming falls under three distinct headings: Youth Programming, Arts and Culture, and Community Development. Youth Programming uses the lens of environmental justice, youth development and arts and culture to create a more livable community and generate economic opportunity. Arts and Culture is dedicated to the cultivation/preservation of South Bronx culture and making the arts economically and geographically accessible to Hunts Point residents. Community Development seeks to support the academic, artistic, and positive social development of young people in Hunts Point and engage them as leaders in community development.
Good Old Lower East Side (Goles)
GOLES is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977. GOLES’ long-term goals are to (1) build the power of low-income residents to address displacement and gentrification; (2) preserve and expand the low-income housing stock; (3) assert community self-determination over the use of public space; and (4) ensure a clean and healthy environment where people live, work, and play.
The Brotherhood Sister Sol
For more than 25 years, The Brotherhood Sister Sol (BroSis) has been at the forefront of justice — racial, economic, educational, environmental, criminal and gender. Through unconditional love, around-the-clock support and wraparound programming, we make space for Black and Latinx young people to examine their roots, define their stories and awaken their agency.
UPROSE
Founded in 1966 and based in Sunset Park, UPROSE is determined to see a Just Transition, a move away from the extraction economy and towards climate solutions that put frontline communities in positions of leadership. UPROSE’s current campaigns focus on Climate Justice, Energy Democracy, and Anti-Displacement (in addition to work related to Transportation Justice, Youth Organizing, Community & Industrial Business Resiliency, Small Business Resiliency, and 100% Renewable Energy).
We Stay/Nos Quedamos
Based out of the South Bronx for almost 30 years, WE STAY/Nos Quedamos is dedicated to substantively improving the health and well-being of the surrounding Melrose community and greater South Bronx region. Partnerships (in addition to NYC-EJA) include the South Bronx River Watershed Alliance, Our City Our Homes, and the Bronx Climate Justice Initiative. WE STAY/Nos Quedamos focuses on Advocacy through youth promotion and job development, financial literacy, and housing/tenant’s support with property management and on Environment – Sustainable Community Development through green building, brownfield remediation, and air quality-related initiatives.
CUNY Campus Partners
LaGuardia Community College
With the motto, “Dare to Do More,” Laguardia Community College’s mission is to educate and graduate one of the most diverse student populations in the country to become critical thinkers and socially responsible citizens who help to shape a rapidly evolving society. Recently, LaGuardia Community College collaborated with Queens College to establish the Queens Climate Justice Fellows program to offer students the opportunity to learn about the intersection between both social justice and environmentalism, where the inequality of who is being impacted is also considered.
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is an integral part of the civic, urban, and artistic energy of New York and uses the entire city as a living classroom that broadens students’ understanding of the world around them. With its Urban Sustainability Program, the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn College is at the crux of building out interdisciplinary approaches to environmental sustainability and social justice across its many departments.
CUNY Graduate Center
The Center for Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center proudly hosts the NYC Climate Justice Hub. The Graduate Center also boasts several programs and departments offering insight into the complexity of the issues in climate justice. The Center, for example, also hosts the Advanced Science Research Center, the CUNY Climate Consortium (C3), and the Climate Solidarity initiative—among others.
John Jay College for Criminal Justice
John Jay offers a powerful policy lens for investigating issues of climate justice—which, at their core, are issues of social justice. In recent years, the college has transformed significantly to build a robust environmental justice and climate justice curriculum, in addition to its traditional criminal justice focus. This includes a new minor offering in Sustainability and Environmental Justice, Center for Environmental Justice launched last Fall, and efforts to incorporate environmental justice courses into every major.
Additional Collaborators
North Arrow
North Arrow recognizes the power of maps to guide our actions and endeavors to put this important tool into the hands of historically marginalized communities. North Arrow has served as consultants and partners to the Hub since the beginning to help shift narratives around climate justice and empower the communities it serves. Most critically, the organization has served the Hub by co-creating the NYC Climate Justice Hub Toolbox, a collection of storymaps and data visualizations that help tell the story of climate justice in NYC as it unfolds. The organization was founded by former CUNY student and professor Olivia Ildefonso and her partner, Charles Grosperrin.
Partner & Partners
Partner & Partners is a worker-owned design practice focusing on print, exhibition, interactive, and identity work with clients and collaborators in art, architecture, government, and activism. Partner & Partners has not only worked to develop this website for the NYC Climate Justice Hub and for the Center for Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center that houses the Hub. The company has also developed a visual identity for the Hub to help promote its mission across various media channels.