Lani Wean is the West Virginia Field Organizer. She has a bachelor’s degree in public health and experience in labor rights, reproductive health, and climate action organizing. She works with local mutual aid groups in West Virginia to combat some of their community’s most pressing issues and believes deeply in collective action. They know that West Virginians can take charge of their environmental and community health and be leaders in battling climate change.
Lani works to address environmental concerns such as petrochemical pollution and plastics pyrolysis, a process of burning plastic trash that produces harmful air pollution and toxic waste. Plastics and chemical companies have long exploited her region with little care for air quality or pollutants. She wants to honor West Virginia’s rich history of justice organizing by collaborating with folks on every level of community and government, especially younger generations. Lani has also worked as a farmhand and a pastry chef, and spends her free time hiking, reading, and playing ultimate frisbee. Her work has been featured in Charleston Gazette-Mail (for a second time here), WOWK 13 News, WCHS TV, MetroNews, and West Virginia News Service.
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