#MeetOurBoard: Renee Hamel, Vice Chair, Hartford, CT
Renee Hamel has worked in different capacities in the Connecticut labor movement over the past 5 years.
Renee Hamel has worked in different capacities in the Connecticut labor movement over the past 5 years.
Renee Hamel serves as Vice Chair and has been a member of the Board since 2018. She has over 17 years of experience in non-profits and community building.
Her first experience with climate justice was organizing students to attend the People’s Climate March in 2014.
As a social work and public health graduate student at @UCONN, she also led presentations for classes about the intersection of climate change, human rights, public health, and social justice.
Currently Renee works as Communications Coordinator for AFSCME Council 4, representing 30,000 Connecticut workers in the public and private sector. She is also Co-Chair of Council 4’s Environmental Committee.
Her involvement with @ctclimatejobs is on supporting a green economy that enables sustainable job growth for the most vulnerable and disenfranchised, including a thoughtful and intentional “just transition” of workers.
Renee is proud to be among inspiring leaders of the Roundtable and grateful for the opportunity to
merge two passions of climate justice and labor activism.
merge two passions of climate justice and labor activism.
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