Resiliency Coordinator

We ACT for Environmental Justice

They/Them

Caleb Smith (they/them) is the Resiliency Coordinator at WE ACT for Environmental Justice. They are a lead facilitator of the Extreme Heat Coalition launched as an extension of the Heat, Health, and Equity Initiative. The Coalition seeks to protect urban residents from heat stress through policy, adaptation, and mitigation strategies by integrating nature-based solutions, green infrastructure, social resilience planning, as well as renewable and affordable energy programs. Caleb is also a participant in the Rainproof NYC Collaboration, designed to innovate a new process by which NYC agency staff and community leaders could identify and recommend strategies and policies to adapt to increased heavy rainfall. Caleb received a Bachelor of Arts in Politics at the University of San Francisco and Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy at Columbia University. Previously they served as a Special Assistant to the Mayor in Oakland, where they worked to address illegal dumping, co-facilitated an local Environmental Justice Working Group, and helped implement community-led projects to serve local frontline communities as part of the Better Neighborhoods, Same Neighbors Initiative.