On July 15th, join the Women4Change Civic Education Committee for a discussion with Denise Abdul-Rahman,  a nationally recognized expert in environmental climate justice.

Denise Abdul-Rahman is a staff member of the National NAACP Environmental Climate Justice Program (ECJP), as the Regional Field Organizer for the Midwest and Plain States and serves as the Environmental Climate Justice Chair of the Indiana State Conference of the NAACP.

Her record of helping Indiana residents who are the least protected and most adversely impacted by policy or lack of policy is impressive. Among her accomplishments are the successful organization of over 85 attendees, representing several organizations across the Midwest to the United States EPA, Region V to present the “Our Power Plan;” organized “Just Energy” Campaign. She called for Indianapolis Power Light to stop burning coal by 2016,the plant stopped February 2016; and led a contingent that was crucial to the defeat of House Bill 1320, a bill that sought to depict a narrative that ‘solar was unfair to people of color/African Americans and therefore a fee to distribute energy across the grid should be enforced to make it fair for all.’ The “Just Energy’ Campaign solidified the defeat and the victory rose to national coverage with LA Times and Bloomberg News.

Denise holds a BS in management, MBA in healthcare management and a health informatics designation from Indiana University School of Informatics.

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