Join Michelle Sophia Peedin from Environmental Protection Network and Andrea Berry from the New England Environmental Finance Center to learn more about ways to access capacity-building and technical assistance through the Environmental Justice Hub.

Michelle Sophia Peedin (she/her/ella) is the New England Community Outreach Associate for the Environmental Protection Network, where she connects community groups with technical assistance, EPA alumni, and capacity-building resources for community-led environmental justice initiatives. Previously, she coordinated eco-justice and health equity programs at the North Carolina Council of Churches. Guided by the Jemez Principles—centering frontline leadership, mutual respect, collective learning, and collaborative action—her work is rooted in antiracism, decolonization, and healing-centered practice.

Andrea Berry, (she/her) is the Climate Finance Manager at the New England Environmental\ Finance Center. Building off of more than 20 years in nonprofit development and philanthropy, Andrea works with communities across the Northeast to advance climate adaptation and environmental justice priorities. She offers both fundraising and community engagement support through the lenses of collective power building, decolonization, and justice. Andrea’s strategic approach to complex environmental justice challenges makes her a creative partner, ready to address the multifaceted climate change threats facing communities today. In her “free time” Andrea serves as the Chair of the Select Board in the Town of North Yarmouth, ME, carefully balancing financial pressures with efforts to advance community health and climate resilience, as well as serving on the Board of Directors of Momentum Conservation and Resources for Organizing and Social Change.

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