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{{short description|Puerto Rican attorney and environmental activist}}
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'''Elizabeth Yeampierre''' is a [[Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]] attorney and environmental and [[climate justice]] leader. She is the executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization.
== Early life and education ==
Yeampierre was born in [[New York City]]; growing up, her family lived in multiple different neighborhoods, including Manhattan's [[Upper West Side]], [[Harlem]], and the [[Bronx]].<ref name="Kaufman2023">{{cite web |title=‘The Environment Is Everything’: A Conversation with Climate Justice Leader Elizabeth Yeampierre |url=https://news.fordham.edu/fordham-ma...-climate-justice-leader-elizabeth-yeampierre/ |last=Kaufman |first=Adam |website=[[Fordham University]] |date=18 April 2023 |access-date=25 April 2024}}</ref> Yeampierre recounts being raised in an "[[environmental justice]] community" and the impact it had on the health of her family: her father died from an [[asthma attack]], her mother passed away from [[lung cancer]], and Yeampierre herself suffered a [[pulmonary embolism]]. She cites a woman in her community checking on her children as they slept to ensure they were still breathing: "And I realized that, if we couldn’t breathe, we couldn’t fight for justice, that, literally, there wasn’t anything more fundamental than the right to breathe."<ref name="Woodruff2022">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Yeampierre: Attorney, Climate Justice Leader, Executive Director at UPROSE |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/430343/elizabeth-yeampierre |last=Woodruff |first=Judy |website=[[PBS]] |date=29 November 2022 |access-date=25 April 2024}}</ref>
In 1980, Yeampierre graduated from [[Fordham University]] with a BA in [[political science]]. She earned her [[Juris Doctor|law degree]] from [[Northeastern University]] in 1983.<ref name="UTexas">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Yeampierre |url=https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/directory/elizabeth-yeampierre/ |website=[[University of Texas at Austin]] |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref>
== Career ==
Yeampierre was the first Latina chair of the EPA's [[National Environmental Justice Advisory Council]].<ref name="Glodowski2013">{{cite news |title=Star of Brooklyn: Elizabeth Yeampierre |url=https://brooklynreporter.com/2013/07/star-of-brooklyn-elizabeth-yeampierre/ |last=Glodowski |first=Amanda |work=Brooklyn Reporter |date=3 July 2013 |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> In 2014, she helped lead the [[2014 People's Climate March|People's Climate March]] which took place in New York City.<ref name="Kaufman2023" />
She founded the NYC Climate Justice Youth Summit to help "young people of color understand the overlap between [[racial justice]] and climate change".<ref name="Burch2024">{{cite news |title=Meet the female force who halted a major development project to preserve her working-class neighborhood and make it a leader in clean energy |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com...tives-on-climate-justice-elizabeth-yeampierre |last=Burch |first=Kelly |work=[[Business Insider]] |date=13 January 2024 |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> She has also served as the dean of Puerto Rican student affairs at [[Yale University]].<ref name="Schulman2022">{{cite web |title=Perspectives on Climate Justice: Elizabeth Yeampierre |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com...tives-on-climate-justice-elizabeth-yeampierre |last=Schulman |first=Pansy |website=[[Architectural Record]] |date=June 2022 |access-date=28 April 2024}}</ref>
Yeampierre is currently the executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization.<ref name="Dennehy2017">{{cite web |title=Climate action requires 'local brilliance,' Yeampierre tells YESS summit |url=https://news.yale.edu/2017/11/08/cl...local-brilliance-yeampierre-tells-yess-summit |last=Dennehy |first=Kevin |website=[[Yale University]] |date=8 November 2017 |access-date=28 April 2024}}</ref> In 2012, [[Hurricane Sandy]] caused extreme flooding in [[Sunset Park, Brooklyn|Sunset Park]]. In response, UPROSE began a community effort to prepare the area for the next disaster caused by the [[effects of climate change]]. In 2015, the [[New York City Economic Development Corporation]] started accepting proposals on how to develop empty space within the Sunset Park waterfront.<ref name="Gallucci2022">{{cite web |title=A Brooklyn neighborhood’s long fight for green jobs is paying off |url=https://www.canarymedia.com/article...een-resilient-industrial-district-sunset-park |last=Gallucci |first=Maria |website=CanaryMedia.com |date=13 October 2022 |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> Yeampierre was successful in pushing back against proposed commercial development, driven by concern that "her community could be left behind". The plan put forth by Yeampierre and UPROSE "will incentivize the local economy while putting [the community] on a path to resilience".<ref name="Burch2024" />
=== Climate justice advocacy ===
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|text=That is the history of extraction, of Puerto Rico being the oldest colony in the world, and the fact that things can be done in places where our people live that you can't do in other places. The fact that 23 Superfunds can be on this tiny, tiny, tiny island tells the story of extraction, abuse, toxic exposure, and how corporate American has treated disenfranchised communities.
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|source=Elizabeth Yeampierre<ref name="Plough2020">{{cite book |editor-last=Plough |editor-first=Alonzo L. |date=10 March 2020 |title=Culture of Health in Practice: Innovations in Research, Community Engagement, and Action |url=https://www.google.com/books/editio...beth+Yeampierre"&pg=PA160&printsec=frontcover |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=160 |isbn=9780190071424}}</ref>
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PBS describes Yeampierre as a [[climate justice]] leader.<ref name="Woodruff2022" /> Yeampierre cites Puerto Rico as the "poster child for climate injustice".<ref name="Dennehy2017" /> She points to the flooding caused by [[Hurricane Maria]] in 2018, which disrupted multiple [[Superfund]] sites on the island, leading to contamination in the [[Water pollution|water]], [[Soil contamination|soil]], and [[Air pollution|air]].<ref name="Plough2020" /> Yeampierre criticizes the practice of "disaster capitalism" and doesn't want corporations and organizations to follow a "come in and fix" approach; instead, she looks to the climate justice movement to provide "support that builds food sovereignty and systems that promote local, livable economies". UPROSE has helped to raise upwards of $800,000 for Puerto Rico, and has also provided solar-powered generators, water filters, and other equipment suitable for handling hazardous materials.<ref name="Dennehy2017" /> In a talk given at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] in 2022, Yeampierre stressed that individual communities around the country are bearing the brunt of [[climate change]], and they need to organize as a matter of survival.<ref name="Braswell2022">{{cite web |title=In the Fight for Climate Justice, Let the People Lead |url=https://luskin.ucla.edu/in-the-fight-for-climate-justice-let-the-people-lead |last=Braswell |first=Mary |website=[[University of California, Los Angeles]] |date=6 May 2022 |access-date=28 April 2024}}</ref>
== Awards and honors ==
*In 2015, Yeampierre was recognized as a Climate Warrior by [[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]<ref name="Russell2015">{{cite magazine |title=Climate Warriors |url=https://www.vogue.com/projects/13373340/climate-change-summit-women-cop21-warriors-global-warming |last=Russell |first=Cameron |magazine=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |date=30 November 2015 |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref>
*In 2018, Yeampierre was awarded the Frederick Douglass Abolitionist Award FD200<ref name="CPP2023">{{cite web |title=2023 Dale Prize Environmental Justice: Planning Lessons from the Past and Present to Move Forward |url=https://www.cpp.edu/env/urp/news-events/dale-prize-pages/2023.shtml |website=[[Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design]] |date=28 February 2023 |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref>
*In 2022, Yeampierre was named as one of Apolitical's 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy<ref name="apolitical2022">{{cite web |title=100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy 2022/23 |url=https://apolitical.co/list/en/most-influential-climate-100-2022 |website=apolitical.co |date=2022 |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref>
*In 2023, Yeampierre was awarded the Dale Prize by the [[Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design]] in recognition of her work as an environmental/climate justice leader<ref name="CPP2023" />
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{{short description|Puerto Rican attorney and environmental activist}}
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'''Elizabeth Yeampierre''' is a [[Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]] attorney and environmental and [[climate justice]] leader. She is the executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization.
== Early life and education ==
Yeampierre was born in [[New York City]]; growing up, her family lived in multiple different neighborhoods, including Manhattan's [[Upper West Side]], [[Harlem]], and the [[Bronx]].<ref name="Kaufman2023">{{cite web |title=‘The Environment Is Everything’: A Conversation with Climate Justice Leader Elizabeth Yeampierre |url=https://news.fordham.edu/fordham-ma...-climate-justice-leader-elizabeth-yeampierre/ |last=Kaufman |first=Adam |website=[[Fordham University]] |date=18 April 2023 |access-date=25 April 2024}}</ref> Yeampierre recounts being raised in an "[[environmental justice]] community" and the impact it had on the health of her family: her father died from an [[asthma attack]], her mother passed away from [[lung cancer]], and Yeampierre herself suffered a [[pulmonary embolism]]. She cites a woman in her community checking on her children as they slept to ensure they were still breathing: "And I realized that, if we couldn’t breathe, we couldn’t fight for justice, that, literally, there wasn’t anything more fundamental than the right to breathe."<ref name="Woodruff2022">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Yeampierre: Attorney, Climate Justice Leader, Executive Director at UPROSE |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/430343/elizabeth-yeampierre |last=Woodruff |first=Judy |website=[[PBS]] |date=29 November 2022 |access-date=25 April 2024}}</ref>
In 1980, Yeampierre graduated from [[Fordham University]] with a BA in [[political science]]. She earned her [[Juris Doctor|law degree]] from [[Northeastern University]] in 1983.<ref name="UTexas">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Yeampierre |url=https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/directory/elizabeth-yeampierre/ |website=[[University of Texas at Austin]] |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref>
== Career ==
Yeampierre was the first Latina chair of the EPA's [[National Environmental Justice Advisory Council]].<ref name="Glodowski2013">{{cite news |title=Star of Brooklyn: Elizabeth Yeampierre |url=https://brooklynreporter.com/2013/07/star-of-brooklyn-elizabeth-yeampierre/ |last=Glodowski |first=Amanda |work=Brooklyn Reporter |date=3 July 2013 |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> In 2014, she helped lead the [[2014 People's Climate March|People's Climate March]] which took place in New York City.<ref name="Kaufman2023" />
She founded the NYC Climate Justice Youth Summit to help "young people of color understand the overlap between [[racial justice]] and climate change".<ref name="Burch2024">{{cite news |title=Meet the female force who halted a major development project to preserve her working-class neighborhood and make it a leader in clean energy |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com...tives-on-climate-justice-elizabeth-yeampierre |last=Burch |first=Kelly |work=[[Business Insider]] |date=13 January 2024 |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> She has also served as the dean of Puerto Rican student affairs at [[Yale University]].<ref name="Schulman2022">{{cite web |title=Perspectives on Climate Justice: Elizabeth Yeampierre |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com...tives-on-climate-justice-elizabeth-yeampierre |last=Schulman |first=Pansy |website=[[Architectural Record]] |date=June 2022 |access-date=28 April 2024}}</ref>
Yeampierre is currently the executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization.<ref name="Dennehy2017">{{cite web |title=Climate action requires 'local brilliance,' Yeampierre tells YESS summit |url=https://news.yale.edu/2017/11/08/cl...local-brilliance-yeampierre-tells-yess-summit |last=Dennehy |first=Kevin |website=[[Yale University]] |date=8 November 2017 |access-date=28 April 2024}}</ref> In 2012, [[Hurricane Sandy]] caused extreme flooding in [[Sunset Park, Brooklyn|Sunset Park]]. In response, UPROSE began a community effort to prepare the area for the next disaster caused by the [[effects of climate change]]. In 2015, the [[New York City Economic Development Corporation]] started accepting proposals on how to develop empty space within the Sunset Park waterfront.<ref name="Gallucci2022">{{cite web |title=A Brooklyn neighborhood’s long fight for green jobs is paying off |url=https://www.canarymedia.com/article...een-resilient-industrial-district-sunset-park |last=Gallucci |first=Maria |website=CanaryMedia.com |date=13 October 2022 |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref> Yeampierre was successful in pushing back against proposed commercial development, driven by concern that "her community could be left behind". The plan put forth by Yeampierre and UPROSE "will incentivize the local economy while putting [the community] on a path to resilience".<ref name="Burch2024" />
=== Climate justice advocacy ===
{{quote box|width=40em|
|text=That is the history of extraction, of Puerto Rico being the oldest colony in the world, and the fact that things can be done in places where our people live that you can't do in other places. The fact that 23 Superfunds can be on this tiny, tiny, tiny island tells the story of extraction, abuse, toxic exposure, and how corporate American has treated disenfranchised communities.
|salign=right
|source=Elizabeth Yeampierre<ref name="Plough2020">{{cite book |editor-last=Plough |editor-first=Alonzo L. |date=10 March 2020 |title=Culture of Health in Practice: Innovations in Research, Community Engagement, and Action |url=https://www.google.com/books/editio...beth+Yeampierre"&pg=PA160&printsec=frontcover |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=160 |isbn=9780190071424}}</ref>
}}
PBS describes Yeampierre as a [[climate justice]] leader.<ref name="Woodruff2022" /> Yeampierre cites Puerto Rico as the "poster child for climate injustice".<ref name="Dennehy2017" /> She points to the flooding caused by [[Hurricane Maria]] in 2018, which disrupted multiple [[Superfund]] sites on the island, leading to contamination in the [[Water pollution|water]], [[Soil contamination|soil]], and [[Air pollution|air]].<ref name="Plough2020" /> Yeampierre criticizes the practice of "disaster capitalism" and doesn't want corporations and organizations to follow a "come in and fix" approach; instead, she looks to the climate justice movement to provide "support that builds food sovereignty and systems that promote local, livable economies". UPROSE has helped to raise upwards of $800,000 for Puerto Rico, and has also provided solar-powered generators, water filters, and other equipment suitable for handling hazardous materials.<ref name="Dennehy2017" /> In a talk given at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]] in 2022, Yeampierre stressed that individual communities around the country are bearing the brunt of [[climate change]], and they need to organize as a matter of survival.<ref name="Braswell2022">{{cite web |title=In the Fight for Climate Justice, Let the People Lead |url=https://luskin.ucla.edu/in-the-fight-for-climate-justice-let-the-people-lead |last=Braswell |first=Mary |website=[[University of California, Los Angeles]] |date=6 May 2022 |access-date=28 April 2024}}</ref>
== Awards and honors ==
*In 2015, Yeampierre was recognized as a Climate Warrior by [[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]<ref name="Russell2015">{{cite magazine |title=Climate Warriors |url=https://www.vogue.com/projects/13373340/climate-change-summit-women-cop21-warriors-global-warming |last=Russell |first=Cameron |magazine=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |date=30 November 2015 |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref>
*In 2018, Yeampierre was awarded the Frederick Douglass Abolitionist Award FD200<ref name="CPP2023">{{cite web |title=2023 Dale Prize Environmental Justice: Planning Lessons from the Past and Present to Move Forward |url=https://www.cpp.edu/env/urp/news-events/dale-prize-pages/2023.shtml |website=[[Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design]] |date=28 February 2023 |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref>
*In 2022, Yeampierre was named as one of Apolitical's 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy<ref name="apolitical2022">{{cite web |title=100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy 2022/23 |url=https://apolitical.co/list/en/most-influential-climate-100-2022 |website=apolitical.co |date=2022 |access-date=27 April 2024}}</ref>
*In 2023, Yeampierre was awarded the Dale Prize by the [[Cal Poly Pomona College of Environmental Design]] in recognition of her work as an environmental/climate justice leader<ref name="CPP2023" />
== References ==
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[[Category:21st-century American women lawyers]]
[[Category:21st-century American lawyers]]
[[Category:American climate activists]]
[[Category:Fordham University alumni]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Northeastern University School of Law alumni]]
[[Category
uerto Rican women activists]][[Category
uerto Rican women environmentalists]][[Category:Yale University faculty]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
Okumaya devam et...