Marcelo Bonta's guest appearances

Marcelo Bonta

Sense & Sustainability

Heartwood

Climate Front Line Podcast

Chris Perkins

Terry Tempest Williams

Nicholas Kristof

Eric Hanushek

KYLE WHYTE

Jennifer Verdolin

Sam Cook

Jeffrey Sachs

Kamea Chayne

Mark Bradford

Michael Davidson

Aldo Leopold

Gina McCarthy

Paul Nelson

John Francis

OwlTail

The Climate Front Line is a show that engages social movement &amp; industry leaders as well as artists. Each conversation changes the narrative by centering the interest and needs of communities at the front line of climate change. Marcelo BontaA...

CFL 015: Transforming a Movement with Marcelo Bonta

Marcelo Bonta was originally trained as a conservation biologist, and ended up shifting his career focus from biodiversity to people diversity after finding himself as the sole programmatic person of color at a national conservation organization. That experience was so bad that he didn’t want anything to do with the environmental movement ever again.  However, he realized he could not abandon what he loved—those cute little puffy baby piping plovers and all my brothers and sisters having oppressive experiences with environmental organizations. Since the environmental movement could not be successful and sustainable until it got this J.E.D.I. thing right, he went all in.  His experiences led him to co-create the Center for Diversity &amp; the Environment, which he ran for a decade, providing transformational trainings for thousands of leaders and organizational change processes for dozens of institutions. He also co-founded the Environmental Professionals of Color, a network for leaders of color to survive, thrive, lead, and innovate.

Marcelo Bonta was originally trained as a conservation biologist, and ended up shifting his career focus from biodiversity to people diversity after finding himself as the sole programmatic person of color at a national conservation organization. That experience was so bad that he didn’t want anything to do with the environmental movement ever again. However, he realized he could not abandon what he loved—those cute little puffy baby piping plovers and all my brothers and sisters having oppressive experiences with environmental organizations. Since the environmental movement could not be successful and sustainable until it got this J.E.D.I. thing right, he went all in. His experiences led him to co-create the Center for Diversity &amp; the Environment, which he ran for a decade, providing transformational trainings for thousands of leaders and organizational change processes for dozens of institutions. He also co-founded the Environmental Professionals of Color, a network for leaders of color to survive, thrive, lead, and innovate.

“We can’t protect the environment until we get DEI right.” – Marcelo Bonta of J.E.D.I. Heart

http://www.senseandsustainability.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Marcelo_Final.m4a   Marcelo Bonta founded the Center for Diversity and the Environment to address the underrepresentation of people of color within environmental organizations. He discusses the importance of having environmental leaders who reflect the communities most affected by environmental change and how the environmental movement can strengthen its cause by increasing the diversity of voices it represents.   Image courtesy of Flickr. Originally published by S&amp;S on May 10, 2017.

<a href="http://www.senseandsustainability.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Marcelo_Final.m4a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.senseandsustainability.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Marcelo_Final.m4a</a> Marcelo Bonta founded the Center for Diversity and the Environment to address the underrepresentation of people of color within environmental organizations. He discusses the importance of having environmental leaders who reflect the communities most affected by environmental change and how the environmental movement can strengthen its cause by increasing the diversity of voices it represents. Image courtesy of Flickr. Originally published by S&amp;S on May 10, 2017.

An Interview with Marcelo Bonta, Founder of the Center for Diversity and the Environment