Re-Introducing Ourselves

Over the next few weeks, Clean Air’s staff and Clean Air’s campaign teams will be re-introducing ourselves… who we are, our beliefs and visions, and why we wake up each day and organize for a better world.

Julia White
Grassroots Development Organizer

Julia joined the team at Clean Air in 2018 as the Grassroots Development Organizer. Julia was born and raised in Vermont. While she regularly returns to the green mountains to visit friends and family, she has come to call Buffalo home over the past six years. She received her bachelors at Syracuse University, and kept moving her way west to Buffalo. Julia received her Master of Urban Planning from the University at Buffalo. Prior to joining the Clean Air team, Julia worked as a Canvass Director and Project Coordinator with NYPIRG and the Development Specialist with PUSH Buffalo. Julia ran and organized campaigns to stop fracking (a dangerous form of natural gas drilling) from being approved in New York State and has directed grassroots fundraising campaigns, written and won millions of dollars in private and public grants and hosted large-scale fundraising events to fund community-based work across Buffalo.

Julia has been funding and training others to fund the movement for justice for over 10 years. This work has allowed her to deeply understand the tools and skills of fundraising, but more importantly has equipped her with a decade-long analysis of how we can align our fundraising practices with our values and build a stronger movement for justice in the process. As Clean Air’s Grassroots Development Organizer, Julia is a fundraising organizer. She organizes people, their relationship with money, and money itself to fund a movement for health and justice that not only cannot be defunded, but cannot be stopped.