Andrea Pierce is a Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians(LTBB) citizen. She is Anishinaabek

 
Andrea was lead organizer of Idle No More Michigan, an Indigenous Grassroots Movement, where she seriously began her fight for Native Rights and to SHUT DOWN LINE 5/NO TUNNEL. 

 
Andrea started as an in-the-streets activist where she partnered with Detroit Light Brigade and helped to create the Ann Arbor Light Brigade. She has organized many protests and rallies to SHUT DOWN LINE 5/NO TUNNEL across Michigan. She was a co-organizer of the Pipe Out Paddle Up Flotilla for 16 years.

 
She is the Chair and co-founder of the Anishinaabek Caucus of the Michigan Democratic Party(MDP). The first & only caucus in Michigan that represents the Native American people and the issues that the Anishinaabek face.  

She is one of four citizens that discovered a 10 thousand year old Cultural Sacred Site at the Straits of Mackinac.  In an effort, to bring awareness to the ticking timebomb that is Line 5. 

 
Andrea is focused on protecting tribal lands and tribal treaty rights by shutting down line 5 and stopping the Enbridge tunnel from being built.  

Andrea is employed at Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC) as a Deputy Director of Programming and Leadership Council, where she works to protect impacted communities. 

 
Andrea currently sits on the Washtenaw Environmental Council representing Water Protection and is on the Huron River Watershed Council representing Washtenaw County.

Clare Winterton (she/her) is the Chief Programs and Operating Officer of The Solutions Project, a nonprofit intermediary that accelerates climate action by centering the solutions, voices, and power of frontline communities. The organization’s work aims to create a just and equitable world where everyone has clean air, water, energy, and land.

Clare brings a strong gender lens to her work on climate action with a track-record working on issues of gender equality. She is the former COO and VP of Programs of Global Fund for Women, where she led the organization’s global strategy, operations, grantmaking and advocacy. She also previously served as a Senior Advisor to the United Nations’ Generation Equality initiative, which garnered an unprecedented $40 Billion in new global commitments for gender equality.

Clare has a track record catalyzing creative projects that drive money and attention to critical social causes. As a VP at the Women’s Funding Network (WFN), she spearheaded the communications launch of Women Moving Millions, then a major giving campaign that garnered over $180 million in its initial phase. Clare is also the former CEO of International Museum of Women (IMOW), an innovative online museum and global hub for digital storytelling, art and advocacy.

Clare serves on the Board of YLabs, a global design organization building youth-led solutions to global health, climate, and economic challenges. She is also on the Advisory Board of EM2030, a global civil society and advocacy coalition tracking gender equality.
 

Jilisa Milton is the Executive Director of Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP). 

 Jilisa is an Alabama-based attorney and social worker with a breadth of experience in community organizing and social movements.

She has been a leader in major social justice initiatives and organizations demanding transformative change on a local, regional, and national level. She became one of the founders of Black Lives Matter Birmingham Chapter, namely as a survivor of police violence. She has supported the development of many grassroots organizations and coalitions such as Yellowhammer Fund, S.W.E.E.T Alabama, People’s Budget Birmingham, and more. She’s currently the Vice-President of the board of National Lawyers Guild.

Jilisa’s background in law and policy includes work including immigration law, family law, heirs property, disability justice, and state-level policy advocacy around state budget and tax, and racial justice. Her connection to and passion for environmental justice stems from her commitment to intersectionality and justice, and her identity as native Birminhamian with a family history of workers in Birmingham’s steel industry.

Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the acclaimed Tech Won’t Save Us podcast.

Paris speaks around the world about the politics of technology and writes the Disconnect newsletter. Paris is the author of Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires.
 

Ryan Madden is the Indigenous Solidarity Director at NY Renews, a statewide climate, jobs, and justice coalition. He came to NY Renews from the Long Island Progressive Coalition, where he led the organization’s climate and energy justice campaigns for close to a decade. As a part of his time at LIPC he worked with NY Renews as an active member organization. Throughout this time, he deepened his leadership around Indigenous solidarity work. He has significantly expanded the coalition’s efforts and relationships in order to ensure its work for a Just Transition is aligned with Indigenous environmental justice, land justice, and sovereignty.

Ryan is working to fight data center proposals near Tonawanda Seneca Nation and Mohawk Nation Territories, alongside members of the Nations. He played a key role in the successful campaign to enact a one-year statewide moratorium on new data center development in New York State.

Steven Renderos (he/him) is the Executive Director of MediaJustice, a national racial justice organization that advances the media and technology rights of people of color.

For over a decade, Steven led campaigns at MediaJustice that increased community access to telecommunications, challenged corporate media and tech consolidation, leveraged litigation strategies to curb tech harms, and exposed Big Tech's role in policing and surveillance. He is an organizer, thought leader, policy expert, and coalition builder in the media justice movement.

Steven regularly contributes to publications like the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, the MIT Technology Review, and The Guardian. He is also a DJ and podcaster.

Steven was a 2013 Rainbow PUSH Coalition Top Inspirational and Engaged Leader and a 2020 Rockwood Leadership Institute fellow. He was a 2020 advisor for Just Futures Law’s Take Back Tech Fellowship, and serves on the board of Americans for Financial Reform and Upturn.