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.
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
Midwest Climate & Energy program advisor
Vibrant and Equitable Communities program advisor
2020-2024
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
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
Advisor helping explore the intersection of movement, public arts, and reciprocity with the earth.
2021-2024
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE, Roxbury, MA)
Advised on BERDO building emissions standard regulatory integration of environmental justice.
2023
Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina (COPAL)
Strategic planning on environmental justice work.
2022-2024
Review of Sustainable Landcare Training Program from an EJ lens.
2023
National network-wide Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Assessment of Audubon chapters and state offices.
2018-2019
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.
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:
MN governor, leaders must act to save lives of state’s most vulnerable
Bearing Witness: A Story of Life in Chernobyl's Aftermath