Executive DirectorTaproot Earth
Colette Pichon Battle is the Co-founder and Partner of Vision & Initiatives at Taproot Earth, a global climate justice organization anchoring various frontline formations in the Gulf South, Appalachia and the Black Diaspora to advance climate justice and combat philosophies of extraction and sacrifice zones in the US and throughout the Global South. An award-winning lawyer with a specliaization US Asylum & Immigration law, Colette is a climate justice organizer and develops programming focused on equitable climate disaster recovery, global migration, community economic development and energy democracy. Her TED Talk on climate migration was ranked in the top 10 TED talks of 2020. Pichon Battle is a 2023 Heinz Award for the Environment, has been named a Harvard Hauser Leader, Catalyst Award (Rachel’s Network) and is a 2019 Obama Fellow. She serves on the board of the US Climate Action Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.