Louis D. Bailey serves as National Environmental Justice Coalition Manager with WE ACT for Environmental Justice. Bailey, as he prefers to be called, leads federal issues campaigns that address the local concerns of members of the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum – an alliance of nearly 60 environmental justice organizations based in 24 states. Prior to his current role, Bailey served as Community Organizer and Outreach Coordinator at WE ACT and was based in the Harlem office.

Marcela Mitaynes, Assembly Member, represents Assembly District 51 which includes Red Hook, Sunset Park and northern Bay Ridge. Through her work with Neighbors Helping Neighbors, and with tenants throughout New York State, Marcela was instrumental in the passage of the historic Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019. This legislation dramatically and comprehensively strengthened the rights of tenants in rent-stabilized apartments to defend their homes and communities. Marcela is continuing to organize in the district and help build power for working class people.

Fernando Ortiz Baez is a first-generation, Dominican-American, native New Yorker, raised in the South Bronx. He is the Community Engagement Associate Planner at the NYC Department of City Planning-Bronx Office and has also served as a Climate and Resiliency Organizer at The Point CDC. Fernando also is contributing to the South Bronx Working Group in partnership with Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association as part of the Neighborhoods Now program through his firm, The Greenest Fern.

Hatuey Ramos-Fermín is an artist. He is the co-founder of meta local collaborative, an artist collective, and Boogie Down Rides, a bicycling and art project celebrating cycling in the Bronx. He has organized projects and made presentations at a security guard training school (in tribute to Fashion Moda), community centers, churches, restaurants, laundromats, as well as galleries and museums. He has mentored young adults at the Center for Urban Pedagogy, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, where he also served as Curator of Education.