A.Tianna Scozzaro has more than 15 years experience at the intersection of gender and climate advocacy. At the Sierra Club, she designed and launched the first gender equity program at a national environmental organization. Under her leadership, the program grew to more than 100,000 activists mobilized on gender equity, climate justice and environmental health. She built a national coalition on women's health and environment, partnered with the Women's March, Planned Parenthood and led campaigns on issues such as access to paid family leave, reproductive rights, protection from gender based violence, and toxics-free products. She co-designed and co-founded the Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal, integrating feminist principles into national and global climate policy. In partnership with Women's Earth Alliance, she launched a competitive U.S. Accelerator Program for grassroots women environmentalists.
Her previous work includes advocacy on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, training governments and NGOs on women’s health and climate change in East Africa, and managing a portfolio of sub-grants totaling more than $500,000 across 8 countries. She served on the board of the Global Gender and Climate Alliance, as a program manger for a network of women environmental philanthropists, Rachel's Network, and served as a policy fellow for the U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming in the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill. A.Tianna is a trained spokesperson through the Women's Media Center and is a regular contributor to Ms. Magazine and Woodrow Wilson Center’s New Security Beat.
A.Tianna has also participated in local civic engagement. In 2016 she was elected as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC 1C04) in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington D.C. where - for six years - she also coordinated a large-scale music and arts festival, Adams Morgan Day, with 30,000 attendees annually.
She holds an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a BA from University of California, Davis. She has traveled to more than 40 countries and lived and worked in Bolivia, Spain, Guatemala and Chile. A.Tianna currently serves as the Environment & Health Coordinator with the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan.
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