Senior Fellow - Just Solutions Alvaro S. Sanchez is a strategic racial equity and climate justice leader who turns bold ideas into tangible results. He has spent more than fifteen years designing and executing multi-sector strategies that move billions in public and private dollars toward communities of color. Alvaro was the former Vice-President of Policy at The Greenlining Institute.
Blueprints for Belonging
The Gateway Cities Regional Climate Collaborative shows what it can look like to build belonging through civic infrastructure in Southeast Los Angeles.
Blueprints for Belonging
For more than five decades, Casa Familiar has built the relationships, trust, and shared expectations that allow residents to shape their community’s future. Read about La Semilla, a climate resiliency center, gathering space, and neighborhood-scale demonstration site.
Blueprints for Belonging
In North San Joaquin Valley, BEAM operates as a backbone for a growing regional ecosystem that identifies gaps and helps fill them through coordination, technical assistance, grants, strategic investments, and shared infrastructure.
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
Energy affordability is not just about the cost of living but also about wealth inequality, racialized exclusion, and institutional mistrust, which require a deliberate strategy toward shared prosperity.