2 February 2010

Grio100: Kari Fulton, to be young, green, and black

taliawhyte The Grio Kari Fulton

By Talia Whyte

Did you know that it’s cool to be black and green? Kari Fulton has been leading the charge to let the black community know that environmental justice is an issue to be concerned about. The Denver native is considered one of the leading green justice activists of color in the country.

Fulton is a youth campaign coordinator for the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC), and is co-founder of ChecktheWeather.net. After seeing the environmental devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Fulton awakened to the fact that environmental justice was a black issue.

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