Over the last few months, as The Greenlining Institute has marked its 25th anniversary, we’ve been reflecting on our history, accomplishments, and occasional frustrations. And let’s be honest: The 2016 election upped the frustration level, with almost everything that matters…
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I have the exciting job of leading Greenlining’s Diversity and Inclusion initiative. We seek to reframe the narrative on diversity to focus on justice and its role in ending the racial wealth gap once and for all. In this year… Continue reading 
This month, low-income residents in Sacramento and Los Angeles will get access to electric vehicle carsharing programs that provide pollution-free mobility at low or no cost to them. These programs represent just a small part of California’s multi-billion dollar effort… Continue reading 
The year 2010 represented a huge opportunity for California and the U.S. to move closer to health for all – something Greenlining always supported, though we’d had only limited involvement in advocacy around access to healthcare. Passage of the Affordable… Continue reading 
It’s considered rude to say, “I told you so,” but as far as the 2008 financial crisis goes, we did. Now a new wave of financial deregulation could set up a rerun of the predatory lending boom that devastated communities… Continue reading 
The environment is a key civil rights issue, but when I started to get involved in environmental issues, we didn’t often see other people of color in the room and at times it seemed like mainstream environmentalists were more concerned… Continue reading 
I found out about the Greenlining Leadership Academy during the spring semester of my first year in graduate school at the University of Michigan, where I was working on my master’s degree in public policy. Everyone was finding summer internships,… Continue reading 
The Greenlining Institute was still a new organization in 1995. We’d just had our first Economic Development Summit the year before, featuring U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, and in 1995 we did something that apparently no one… Continue reading 
I was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles – Watts — a child of Mexican immigrants. We used to jokingly call it Hollywatts. So I saw first-hand what it was like to live in a community that had… Continue reading 
2018 marks an important milestone for us: On March 8, 1993, The Greenlining Institute officially incorporated, making the leap from an informal coalition to an actual organization. This anniversary comes at a moment in our nation’s history when the fight… Continue reading 
