Who We Are

Anne Marie Hertl

Deputy Director

Anne Marie Hertl (she/they) joins the MEJC team leveraging a decade of non-profit experience working as an organizer and regional activist to support social justice movement building throughout the environmental sector in Michigan.

Dennis Black

Political Director

Dennis Black is a dedicated community organizer and political operative born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, with a strong commitment to environmental justice, including work on water affordability, sustainability, and community solar.

Latia Leonard

Justice 40 Accelerator Program Manager

Latia Leonard is the Justice 40 Program Manager with the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC). Latia holds passion in advocating for environmental justice, on issues of water access, affordability, just transition...

Chris Gilmer-Hill

Policy Associate

Chris Gilmer-Hill has been a part of the MEJC policy team since April 2024, and he was elected to the steering committee of the Environmental Justice Caucus in 2024.

Gloria J Lowe

Board Member

Gloria J Lowe (she/her) is the founder and president of We Want Green Too which has served veterans and returning citizens for over 14 years.

Jumana Vasi

Board Member

Jumana Vasi, MS, is the Principal at JVasi Consulting, LLC. For seven years she has been helping nonprofits design and implement programs and strategies to take advantage of, and respond to, current political, social, and economic realities.

Zuberi Moore

Operations Director

Zuberi Moore directs Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition's operations

Ebony Elmore

Organizing Manager

Ebony Elmore comes to MEJC with a background in early education, community organizing and public health.

Ayanna-Grace King

Digital Organizer

Ayanna-Grace (she/them) is an urban farmer by trade and organizer by passion. She has a diverse 10 year background in teaching, climate justice and social justice. Ayanna-Grace began her career as a teenage art teacher.

Xandr Brown

Director of Communications

As MEJC’s Directory of Communications, Xandr Brown (she/her) brings her years of experience as a hyperlocal reporter, multimedia producer, and artist to the role.

Kathryn Savoie

Board Member

Kathryn Savoie (she/her) is veteran community organizer and has led a number of major health, human rights and environmental justice campaigns in the Detroit area over more than 30 years.

Andrea Pierce

Policy Director

Andrea Pierce (she/her, we/us) is a Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB) citizen and MEJC's Policy Director.

Mikal Goodman

MAJIC Manager

Mikal is a public servant, community leader, and dedicated environmental justice organizer, who is thrilled to bring deep passion and experience to his role as Manager of the Michigan Alliance for Justice In Climate (MAJIC).

Aiko Fukuchi

Operations Associate

Aiko Fukuchi (they/them) supports the maintenance and strengthening of internal systems at MEJC as Operations Associate.

Kyle Whyte

Board Member

Kyle Whyte (he/him) is an environmental justice organizer, educator, and researcher, currently serving as the George Willis Pack Professor at the University of Michigan, where he teaches in the environmental justice graduate program.

Mona Munroe-Younis

Board Member

Mona Munroe-Younis is Founder and Executive Director at Environmental Transformation Movement of Flint (ETM Flint), a Flint, MI nonprofit dedicated to growing diverse grassroots environmental justice leaders and just relationships to secure a healthy, sustainable future by and for Flint residents.