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The Long Island Progressive Coalition (LIPC) is a grassroots community-based organization founded in 1979, dedicated to promoting sustainable development.
Tonia Torrellas is sharing Monique Fitzgerald from the Capitol in Albany, NY. Monique is a tribal member of the Setalcott Nation, a nation traditionally based on the north shore of Suffolk County, and was born and raised in North Bellport. Her past work has been at the grassroots level, organizing and advocating for the North Bellport community and communities with similar socioeconomic demographics. As a person living in a community on the front line of the climate crisis, Monique brings first-hand experience of what climate justice is not and what it could be.
Monique is the Climate Justice Organizer for The Long Island Progressive Coalition, a grassroots community-based organization founded in 1979, dedicated to promoting sustainable development, revitalizing local communities, enhancing human dignity, creating effective democracy, and achieving economic, social and racial justice.
Tune in for B~Our Planets Solution in podcast. Find out more about the LI Progressive Coalition at lipc.org follow on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube and connect with Monique at mfitzgerald@lipc.org.
Tonia Torrellas is an advocate for giving back to others and a serial problem-solver, and she steps up to the roles of nurse, mompreneur, creator and inventor every day, and is on a mission to eliminate plastic waste!
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