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Shalini Gupta
SGupta Consulting LLC

shalini@sgupta.org

Strategic Advisor | Activist | Entrepreneur 

 

Bringing a historic and international lens to my life's work - I center ecological sustainability, community health, and social justice. I have over 25 years of experience encompassing research, policy advocacy, community education, facilitation, writing, and nonprofit start ups/management. My work is intersectional, with specific expertise in the fields of energy, climate policy, and environmental justice.

 

I work with foundations, funder networks, donors, city and state government agencies, socially conscious businesses, nonprofits, artists, and community based organizations to integrate a justice lens into environmental and climate programmatic work. 

 

​I am committed to justice in the place I immigrated as a child - Minneapolis, Minnesota (Mnisota Makoce), home of the Dakota people.

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Recent Consulting Clients:
 

Foundation and Funder Spaces

 

Midwest Environmental Justice Network

Co-Executive Director, Oct 2024 - present
 

Chicago Frontline Funding Initiative

Senior advisor, 2022-present

 

McKnight Foundation

Midwest Climate & Energy program advisor

Vibrant and Equitable Communities program advisor

2020-2024​

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Health & Environmental Funders Network
Climate, Health, and Equity national research survey, in collaboration with seven funder affinity groups and nearly 200 foundations and nonprofits around the country (survey report).

2019-2020

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Surdna Foundation, Sustainable Environments Program

Team facilitation and research for Understanding and Tracking Organizational and Movement Progress Initiative report.

2019



Nonprofits / CBOs

Community Members for Environmental Justice (CMEJ)

Strategic advisor on city land use/zoning, organizational development, and state environmental justice policy in Minnesota.

2018-2024

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Aniccha Arts

Advisor helping explore the intersection of movement, public arts, and reciprocity with the earth.

2021-2024

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Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE, Roxbury, MA)

Advised on BERDO building emissions standard regulatory integration of environmental justice.

2023

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Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina (COPAL)

Strategic planning on environmental justice work.

2022-2024

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Metro Blooms

Review of Sustainable Landcare Training Program from an EJ lens.

2023

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National Audubon Society

National network-wide Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Assessment of Audubon chapters and state offices.

2018-2019

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Government / Public Institution Facing​

 

City of Boston / One Square World (2020-2023)

Policy advisor on integrating community-based environmental justice input into Boston's Building Emissions Policy Standard development and Northeastern University's Climate Action Plan.

 

City of Minneapolis (2019)
Policy facilitation/research/design of community-based Minneapolis Southside Green Zones Council (
policy recommendations report) +

Strategic planning and staff retreat facilitation for Office of Sustainability.

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City of Providence, Rhode Island / One Square World (2018-2019)

Racial and Environmental Justice Committee

Policy advisor on integrating community-based environmental justice input into City of Providence Climate Justice Plan.

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Read some of my articles:

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MN governor, leaders must act to save lives of state’s most vulnerable

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Bearing Witness: A Story of Life in Chernobyl's Aftermath

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Linked In Site

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“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”  


― Arundhati Roy

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