The Greenlining Institute
Maurissa Brown is an experienced professional focused on advocating for transportation equity and environmental justice. Currently serving as the Transportation Equity Program Manager at The Greenlining Institute since October 2022, Maurissa promotes clean, safe, and affordable mobility options for low-income communities of color while ensuring state zero-emission vehicle policies support climate-resilient communities. Previously, as a Dr. Roger Arliner Young Clean Energy Diversity Fellow at the Environmental Leadership Program and New Buildings Institute, Maurissa gained expertise in building science and energy efficiency, collaborating with diverse stakeholders to advance innovative technologies and policies. Earlier experience includes a research assistant role at UCLA's Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and guiding outdoor adventures, complemented by a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from UCLA.
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The Greenlining Institute
Founded in 1993, The Greenlining Institute envisions a nation where communities of color thrive and race is never a barrier to economic opportunity. Because people of color will be the majority of our population by 2044, America will prosper only if communities of color prosper. Greenlining advances economic opportunity and empowerment for people of color through advocacy, community and coalition building, research, and leadership development. We work on a variety of major policy issues, from the economy to environmental policy, civic engagement and many others, because economic opportunity doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Rather than seeing these issues as being in separate silos, Greenlining views them as interconnected threads in a web of opportunity.