Rhiana Gunn-Wright was born on 1988 and is the Climate Policy Director at the Roosevelt Institute.
16 Facts About Rhiana Gunn-Wright
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright has worked with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as an author of the Green New Deal.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright grew up in Englewood in the South Side of Chicago, where the local population are more likely to suffer from asthma because of their proximity to pollution.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright was raised by her mother and her grandmother.
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At the age of fourteen Rhiana Gunn-Wright moved to the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright's asthma disappeared after a short amount of time.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright attended Yale University for her undergraduate degree, majored in African-American studies and graduated with honours in 2011.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright was inspired by the New Haven Promise initiative as a way to break the cycle of disadvantage.
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In 2013 Rhiana Gunn-Wright was selected as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford where she studied social policy.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright was appointed policy lead for Abdul El-Sayed's campaign for governor of Michigan.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright was head hunted by the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign to join New Consensus, a think-tank championed by Ocasio-Cortez in Washington, DC For some time New Consensus had been working with the Sunrise Movement on the development of an environmental policy program and with the Justice Democrats on identifying new progressive candidates.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright has established a "climate mobilisation office", through which she works on climate change policy.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright has since been involved with the Ocasio-Cortez town halls and the CNN climate town hall.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright appeared in Rachel Lears' 2022 documentary film, To the End, which focuses on the effects of climate change.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright has written for The Guardian and was included in Time magazine's list of the top women fighting to end climate change.
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright was a signatory on the Women Lead Climate campaign.