Meet the Steering Committee

Mimi is co-leader of the Climate Idea Exchange, which produces 350Brooklyn’s Climate Wednesdays series. She spent years working as a journalist and editor and then as a Brooklyn teacher (yay Murrow), always with an eye on climate and the environment. She wants a livable climate for her own children, the students she taught, and everyone else on this beautiful earth.

Kristen is co-lead of the Media Committee. Her day job is in advertising and uses those skills to get out the word about what’s happening with 350Brooklyn. In her spare time she watches movies with her dog, Wesley.

Sara is the lead for the Legislation Committee and also heads the Administrative Team. A retired professor, she taught environmental history, among other things, for many years. She has lived in Brooklyn for forty years and is deeply committed to ensuring that all living beings in Brooklyn and elsewhere can thrive in the years to come.

Delia helps organize Power Hour at 350Brooklyn and wants to see New York pass climate legislation that would make other states jealous. A dedicated conservationist trained as a landscape architect, Delia has worked to expand New Yorkers’ access to outdoor space, and joined the climate movement while protesting the Williams pipeline that had been proposed for New York Harbor. To relieve stress, Delia enjoys running through New York City and enjoying the food it has to offer (preferably at the same time)

Kathy has been a devotee of City Action/Power Hour since “Climate Week” of April 2021 when she decided to throw everything climate against the wall to see what stuck. Power Hour is what stuck. Her climate activism began when she realized that the climate crisis was the big umbrella issue over everything she cared about. Having originally come to New York to study fashion and work in wardrobe, being a tree hugger was the biggest surprise to herself.
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Lynn is the primary liaison with the Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition for Justice. As an artist, directing Artichoke Dance Company, Lynn has been working in and around Gowanus for nearly a decade. Her former dog, Sunny, led her to environmental activism (hear the story here) and she is currently studying environmental policy at the New School. You can find her in Prospect Park every morning with her dog, Seraphina.

Ella is a co-lead of the 350Brooklyn Families group, and is also on the website subcommittee. A recent transplant from the UK, she is a freelance web applications developer and mom of two. She remembers having nightmares about “global warming” at age 5, so when her own children were born years later and the situation had only gotten worse, she felt the need to be more actively involved.

Judy is a co-lead of the Stop the Money Pipeline (STMP) Campaign. She is a clinical social worker with a private psychotherapy practice. Judy is interested in the psychology of climate change denial and inaction. Judy stays cheerful by walking in the park with her dog, Sonny. She has lived in Brooklyn for 30 years.

Laurel is a co-lead of 350Brooklyn Families Group. She has a background in policy advocacy and currently works for a local climate group. Laurel is the parent of two children who inspire her climate activism and look pretty cute at marches.

Ieva, born on a farm in Latvia, moved from Michigan to Brooklyn in 1968. She is co-lead of the Stop the Gowanus Peaker Plant, with the vision of stopping all fossil fuel infrastructure. After careers in teaching, publishing and ordained ministry, this phase of her life is devoted to falling in love with the Earth again, learning from it how to live ecologically, and how to protect it from human-caused harm.