CCA visits Central Valley environmental advocates

As part of the Coalition For Clean Air (CCA) efforts to build a more inclusive and more effective environmental movement among statewide and local organizations, personnel from its Outreach, Communications and Community Engagement (OCCE) Department met with environmental advocates in California’s Central Valley at the beginning of March.

The meetings allowed for OCCE’s staff to listen to first-hand accounts about some of the challenges and accomplishments that environmental groups have been addressing in the Central Valley. The meetings also became an opportunity to explore ways in which we all can work together in the pursuit of the common goal of strengthening the environmental advocacy in the region.

These series of visits took Armando Nieto, director of OCCE; Nidia Bautista, outreach manager; Adele Peters, communications associate and new CCA staff members Anaí Ibarra-Lopez, marketing and community engagement manager and Erica Lepping, media manager along Highway 99 to meet with several community-based organizations beginning in Earlimart and ending in Fresno, with stops in Delano and Visalia.

Over the course of the next few months, CCA will be traveling to and visiting with organizations and communities in the Central Valley.  If you or your organization is interested in meeting with CCA to engage in a discussion about how best to move forward to strengthen environmental advocacy in the Central Valley and California overall, please contact Nidia Bautista at Nidia@coalitionforcleanair.org or via phone at (213) 630-1144.