Deirdre Smith Shabaaz

"Deirdre Smith Shabaaz is the Strategic Partnerships Coordinator at 350.org. Her work has focused on solidarity organizing, training, and movement building. Deirdre started her work over a decade ago in Los Angeles just before returning home to New Mexico to do Environmental and Economic Justice work, as well as leadership, team, and network development through training. In 2012 after supporting the creation of a still thriving statewide-wide network, Deirdre helped launched and build 350.org’s National Divestment Campaign. Today, she leads 350.org‘s Reinvestment work in the US, leads transformative movement building trainings, and advises strategy and leadership development for multiple divest/reinvest teams, and organizes for resilience with black community in Oakland. Deirdre’s passion is to support and build strategic alignment between Economic, Ecological, Racial and Climate Justice groups on economic transition work from the lens of Black Resilience in solidarity with low-income (high-outcome) and communities of color. Deirdre is currently coordinating an innovative collaboration between the Divestment Movement, Climate Justice Alliance’s Our Power campaign sites, and several other partners working on a trans-local Reinvestment strategy, to move resources and support toward a transition to just and clean economies and building collective power at the frontlines of poverty and pollution."

Affiliations

• Core team, Wildfire Project