Meet the Team

We are building a highly experienced and qualified team with expertise in equity, belonging, and environmental justice. Read our bios below to learn more!


  • Founder

    Clara Fang has more than twenty years of experience working at the intersection of climate and racial justice. As a strategic thinker and communicator, she has led climate and sustainability planning for higher ed institutions, local government, and businesses. Her work includes advocacy and grassroots organizing, consulting on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, and fostering wellness and belonging among environmental activists and professionals. Clara is a Certified Workplace Mindfulness Facilitator with the Mindful Leader Institute.

    In addition to a PhD in environmental from Antioch University, she holds a BA in English from Smith College, an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Utah, and a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University. She is based on the Washington DC area.

  • Tatiana Eaves is an ecologist, wellness practitioner, healer, and communicator, among other things. She brings a diverse background in ecology, environmental justice, environmental policy, and community advocacy, alongside her expertise as a trained herbalist, energy healer, and ordained interfaith minister. She holds years of experience assisting grasstops, community partners, and activists in developing and implementing effective public engagement strategies to help people feel more confident and equipped to take political action and disrupt current systems of inequity. Tatiana is a big picture strategist and excels in identifying the intersections between various issue topics and constituencies, bridging the human dimensions with targeted systemic efforts to promote lasting change and a more inclusive and intersectional conservation movement. Currently pursuing a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min) in Sacred Ecology, she holds an M.S. in Environmental Science and Policy and a B.S. in Biology with a focus on ecology.

    Tatiana also owns the Ministry of Neteru Apothecary, offering mindfully crafted herbs and plant medicines, and founded Ecologist Says, with a mission to share nature's wisdom, helping individuals connect with their intuition and embrace their life's purpose while recognizing our interconnectedness within the web of life.

  • Consultant

    Genie is an engaging environmental professional with a multi-disciplinary background working to advance climate justice. Her expertise includes climate adaptation planning, social and environmental justice, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI), floodplain management, environmental policy, environmental education, coastal hazards, social-ecological resilience, and green infrastructure / nature-based solutions planning. She is an effective communicator, facilitator, and educator with experience engaging stakeholders in the public, private, non-profit, and academic sectors.

    Genie is a Program Specialist supporting the Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) program, formerly known as RISA, within the Climate and Societal Interactions division at the NOAA Climate Program Office. Her work as a JEDI practitioner began in 2020 after receiving a planning grant through the Switzer Foundation to collaborate with two other fellowship alumni to develop a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion toolkit for environmental practitioners seeking to further individual and organizational understanding of the principles of JEDI. This work then led Genie and the two collaborators to serve as JEDI consultants for the National Aquarium to conduct an organizational needs assessment, a series of JEDI trainings, the development of a DEIJ Strategic Plan, and to assist the organization in transitioning to implementation of the DEIJ strategy. Genie has served as a member of DEIJ Committees for the 2019 Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, the DC Department of Energy and Environment, and the NOAA Climate Program Office.

    She graduated with honors from California State University, Long Beach with an M.A. in Geography, and the University of Utah with a B.S. in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, and B.S. in Urban Ecology.