SUSTAINABILITY: Imani Green Health Advocates

By Steve Bynum
Imani Green
Workers from Imani Green Health Advocates, a career development initiative from Imani Village and collaborators Trinity United Church of Christ, Advocate Health Care, Chicago Region Trees Initiative, The Morton Arboretum, The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Forest Service and others. The Nature Conservancy in Illinois / Facebook
Imani Green
Workers from Imani Green Health Advocates, a career development initiative from Imani Village and collaborators Trinity United Church of Christ, Advocate Health Care, Chicago Region Trees Initiative, The Morton Arboretum, The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Forest Service and others. The Nature Conservancy in Illinois / Facebook

SUSTAINABILITY: Imani Green Health Advocates

By Steve Bynum
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Reset’s sustainability contributor Karen Weigert introduces Imani Green Health Advocates, an initiative of Trinity United Church of Christ’s Imani Village project. Imani Village partnered with The Nature Conservancy to advise Chicago South and West Side communities on how nature and neighborhood trees power social justice and equity.

GUEST: Karen Weigert, executive vice president at Slipstream, a clean energy innovation non-profit; former chief sustainability officer at the city of Chicago

Juliette Tyson, mission coordinator, Imani Green Health Advocates

Forrest Cortes, community engagement director at The Nature Conservancy in Illinois