Dr. Frances Roberts-Gregory is an international climate policy consultant, environmental curriculum developer, and vegan ecowomanist storyteller. Trained as an environmental scientist, climate anthropologist, and community geographer, Dr. Roberts-Gregory researches the role and political priorities of U.S. Afrodiasporic communities and women’s organizations at United Nations climate negotiations.
Dr. Roberts-Gregory has familial roots in coastal North Carolina (Duplin and Sampson Counties) and rural Georgia (Augusta and Emanual County). Born in Newark, New Jersey, she traveled between various cities within North Carolina and Arlington, Virginia (the D.C. metro region) during her primary years. Dr. Roberts-Gregory later earned a BA in Environmental Science, Sociology, and Anthropology from Spelman College and a PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation research explored Black and Indigenous women’s everyday resistance to environmental violence and solutions for climate policy, sustainability, and blue-green infrastructure in Gulf Coast Louisiana. Dr. Roberts-Gregory formerly served as a Climate Justice Program Officer at the Foundation for Louisiana, as a Program Director of Leadership Development at the Initiative for Energy Justice at Northeastern University, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) within the Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability. She currently serves on the boards of the Hive Fund for Climate & Gender Justice and the HBCU Green Fund.
2017 People's Climate March in Washington, D.C.
2019 Skull & Bones Gang on Mardi Gras morning in Tremé, New Orleans
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