Who We Are

Juan Jhong Chung

Executive Director

Juan (he/they/she) is a queer immigrant, born in Peru, of Indigenous Chanka and Cantonese Chinese ancestry.

Zuberi Moore

Operations Director

Zuberi Moore directs Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition's operations

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...

Xandr Brown

Communications Associate

As MEJC’s communications associate, 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.

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.

Andrea Pierce

Policy Director

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

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.

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.

Pavan Vangipuram

Communications Director

Pavan (he/him) comes to MEJC after almost a decade in nonprofit and government spaces, particularly focused around immigration, education and environmental advocacy.

Andrew Kaplowitz

Organizing Director

Andrew Kaplowitz is an Ashkenazi Jew living in Wawiyaatanong (so-called Detroit). As Organizing Director at MEJC Andrew focuses on helping to build healthy communities for those most impacted by environmental injustice across Michigan.

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).