![]() Thomas has studied four languages and lived and worked in over twelve countries and her other achievements include being featured in the films The Future of Energy and Inhabit, presenting at Tedx Denver and SF, and being awarded internships and fellowships to the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, Green For All, the Bronx Zoo and the Applied Research Center. Her fellowship is focused on supporting Community Driven Resiliency Planning. She has just been awarded a fellowship with the Movement Strategy Centers National Association of Climate Resiliency Planners. Pandora’s most recent passions include being a carepartner for her mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimers, co-founding the Black Permaculture Network, working for 6 years with Toyota to design and serving as a coalition member of the Toyota Green Initiative, which supported African Americans in understanding the benefits of adopting sustainable lifestyles co-designing, teaching with and directing Pathways to Resilience-a permaculture and social entrepreneur training program that worked with men and women returning home after incarceration, and working with the Urban Permaculture Institute in Marin City supporting a People’s Planning Process, which supports community members to assess and design strategies for their own resilience. She has designed curriculum for and taught groups all over the world as diverse as Iraqi and Indonesian youth to men serving in San Quentin and men and women returning home from incarceration. Her work emphasizes the benefits of applying ecological principles to social design.Īs a presenter both domestically and internationally, she has given keynotes and lectures on topics ranging from designing mutually beneficially diversity strategies, collaborative design, social justice, youth and women’s leadership, social entrepreneurship, permaculture and sustainability. Pandora Thomas is a passionate global citizen who works as a caregiver, teacher, writer, designer and speaker. Love for family and community is what drives Jaime’s ongoing work for racial justice. She holds a master’s from the University of Cincinnati in Health Promotion and a bachelor’s from Central Michigan University. Nationally, she sits on the PLACES Advisory Committee and the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders (SAFSF) Policy Committee. Jaime is currently on the board of the Blue Ash YMCA, Co-op Cincy, and Green Umbrella locally. Jaime is a 2016 Professionals Learning About Community, Equity, and Smart Growth (PLACES) fellow, and has participated in multiple leadership programs including Rockwood Leadership Institute and Interaction Institute for Social Change. ![]() Her expertise ranges from program development, leadership, equity, and policy advocacy, to communications and outreach. Her work in the public health sector cultivated opportunities for direct community organizing and advocacy work in communities with disproportionate health impacts and enhanced her leadership in philanthropy and the nonprofit sectors around racial equity and climate justice. ![]() Jaime has over 20 years of experience in a variety of spaces including public health, philanthropy, and climate resilience, with a deep focus on racial justice and health equity. As the director of programs for Climate Innovation, Jaime provides leadership, strategy, and support to Climate Innovation programs that advance approaches to community-driven planning and movement building, while centering on racial equity and whole-systems solutions.
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