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          ILLUMINATOR SERIES


Our Tenth Illuminator - Jacqueline Patterson
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Founder of The Chisholm Legacy Project - The Chisholm Legacy Project

Jacqueline Patterson is the Founder and Executive Director of the Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership. The mission of the Chisholm Legacy Project is rooted in a Just Transition Framework, serving as a vehicle to connect Black communities on the frontlines of climate justice with the resources to actualize visions. Prior to the launch of the Chisholm Legacy Project, Patterson served as the Senior Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program for over a decade. During her tenure, she founded and implemented a robust portfolio which included serving the state and local leadership whose constituencies consisted of hundreds of communities on the frontlines of environmental injustice. She also led a team in designing and implementing a portfolio to support political education and organizing work executed by NAACP branches, chapters, and state conferences.

Since 2007, Patterson has dedicated her career to intersectional approaches to systems change. Her passion for social justice led her to serve as coordinator & co-founder of Women of Color United; Senior Women’s Rights Policy Analyst for ActionAid; Assistant Vice-President of HIV/AIDS Programs for IMA World Health, Outreach Project Associate for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Research Coordinator for Johns Hopkins University, and U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica.

Patterson has published multiple articles, reports, and toolkits including: “Equity in Resilience Building for Climate Adaptation: An Indicators Document,” “Jobs vs Health: An Unnecessary Dilemma,” “Climate Change is a Civil Rights Issue,” “Gulf Oil Drilling Disaster: Gendered Layers of Impact,” “Disasters, Climate Change Uproot Women of Color;” “And the People Shall Lead: Centralizing Frontline Community Leadership in the Movement Towards a Sustainable Planet;” “In the Eye of the Storm,” “Our Communities, Our Power,” “Fossil Fueled Foolery.” She’s also authored chapters in two books as follows: “Equity in Disasters: Civil and Human Rights Challenges in the Context of Emergency Events” in the book Building Community Resilience Post-Disaster, as well as, “At the Intersections” in the book, All We Can Save.
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Patterson holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Maryland and a Master’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. She currently serves on the Advisory Boards for Center for Earth Ethics and the Hive Fund for Gender and Climate Justice, on the Governance Assemblies for Mosaic Momentum, Environmental Justice Movement Fellowship, and the Equitable Building Electrification Fund, as well as on the Boards of Directors for the Institute of the Black World, the Bill Anderson Fund, the American Society of Adaptation Professionals, the Movement Strategy Center, the Just Solutions Collective, and the National Black Workers Center Project.
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THE CHISHOLM LEGACY PROJECT
BLACK FEMME LEADERSHIP ON CLIMATE JUSTICE™

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Read our latest report: Adversity to Advancement — 15 Climate Impacts & 45 Black-led Pathways to Climate Justice

SHIRLEY CHISHOLM: WORDS OF WISDOM
"We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods,
​but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically."

www. thechisholmlegacyproject.org


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  • Home
    • About >
      • How it all began
      • The FIRST Green Tent in Verona
      • Start a Tent
    • Legal Notice
  • EVENTS
    • Upcoming Events
    • Ongoing Events >
      • Monthly Illuminator Series
      • Everyone Can Do Something for Mother Earth!
    • Past Events >
      • Honoring Mother Earth
      • CSW Workshops 2025
      • Caring for Creation
      • Virtual Women's March
      • Summer Solstice Celebration
      • Power of Beauty Project
      • CSW Workshop - March 2024
      • Parliament of the Worlds Religions Workshop - August 2023
      • CSW Event - Past - March 2022
      • Abitare Leggere La Terra - October 2022
  • Illuminators
    • White Roses Circle Series
    • Illuminators 2025 >
      • Illuminator Series 20 Dora Sugimoto
    • Illuminators 2024 >
      • Illuminator Series 19 Angaangaq
      • Illuminator Series 18 Dr. Karumba Ringera
      • Illuminator Series 17 Dolly Dastoor PhD
      • Illuminator Series 16 CSW Workshop & Storytelling, Water Ceremony Events
      • Illuminator Series 15 Osprey Orielle Lake
      • Illuminator Series 14 Great Grandmother Mary Lyons
    • Illuminators 2023 >
      • Illuminator Series 12 Elena Migliavacca
      • Illuminator Series 11 Jacqueline Patterson
      • Illuminator Series 10 - Kehkashan Basu M.S.M
      • Illuminator Series 9 - Parliament of the Worlds Religions
      • Illuminator Series 8 - Pintadas Group
      • Illuminator Series 7 - Leah Myers
      • Illuminator Series 6 Lourivania Soares Santos
      • Illuminator Series 5 Dale Allen
      • Illuminator Series 4 Winter Solstice
      • Illuminator Series 3 - Patricia Fero
      • Illuminator Series 2 - Jean Shinoda Bolen
      • Illuminator Series 1 - Marty Casey
  • Storytelling
    • BLOGS >
      • Sailhouse by Rebecca Brugman
      • Whispering Feathers by Sabine Rieser
      • Aanakasaap Illua - Hope by Angaangaq
      • Forest Whispers by Julia Marie Hofer
      • Sacred Circles by Ann Smith
      • Sacred Connections Blog by Angela Weber
      • Affidamento - A matter of Relationship and Trust by Anja Mays
      • Ancestral Wisdom by Grandmother Gayle Crosmaz
      • Love Letters Blog by Leah Myers
      • Higher & Deeper by Jeanne DeRousseau
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    • Sources >
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    • Soul Food >
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      • Prayers & Poems
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