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Marta Segura: LA City’s First Climate Emergency Mobilization Director

Submitted on May 26, 2022 - 11am
Issue: 
Spring 2022

A longtime environmental justice advocate, Marta Segura is the Director of Los Angeles' first-ever Climate Emergency Mobilization Office (CEMO). Segura shares with VX News CEMO's ongoing virtual Climate Equity LA workshops and further engagements with frontline communities.

The View From Detroit: Fmr. White House Adviser Kerry C. Duggan on Local Capacity Building

Submitted on June 29, 2021 - 9pm
Issue: 
Spring 2021
Kerry C. Duggan

VX News interviews Kerry C. Duggan, who an Obama/Biden White House official, spent 6.5 years embedded into Detroit City Hall to provide technical assistance to the city during and after its municipal bankruptcy in 2013, shares her insights into the importance of local capacity building and place-based policymaking in order to Build Back Better.