Executive Director - Just Solutions Aiko Schaefer has over 30 years of professional experience running & directing national & state legislative efforts & partisan Congressional campaigns across the US. She has held numerous director & executive positions & started two other non-profit organizations, including Front and Centered in Washington State. She has deep knowledge of, & has advocated for solutions to, some of the most pressing environmental, economic, & social justice issues of our time.
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
The energy strategy centering corporate profit-making has failed, but we can turn the tide and create a people-centered politics for the public good as a pathway to affordability.
Aiko Schaefer
Our shared freedom requires continuous testing, transparency, and open debate; legal reforms to meet new circumstances; and active tending to and recognition of injustices, both now and in the past, so we can build a future where all of us thrive.
By Aiko Schaefer This month marks our 5th anniversary. What a roller coaster it has been! Just Solutions began amid a once-in-a-generation pandemic, escalating climate impacts, and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. I, along with our board, believing in the power of communities and
By Aiko Schaefer In early 2024 Just Solutions convened nearly 50 national and state organizations together to research, compile and publish, Defending and Advancing Climate Justice Policies, a comprehensive analysis of how we can collectively advance and defend climate justice in the face of various outcomes of the federal elections.