“It really starts in…colonialization, in the extraction of our land and our labor,” says Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of the Brooklyn-based UPROSE, an organization that focuses on sustainable development and a myriad of community issues, including climate and racial justice. “It starts with us having access to the worst food, being put in places where all of a sudden, we’re surrounded by petrochemical industries, having the worst water, the worst health care…for us, environment is everything.”