Thanks to bad environmental policies, Rhiana Gunn-Wright had asthma as a kid; now she leads the team charged with making the ambitious Green New Deal a reality.
In late 2018, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, an architect of the Green New Deal, found her work thrust into the spotlight by a sit-in at Nancy Pelosi’s office. In her role as policy director at the D.C. think tank New Consensus, Gunn-Wright had been exploring how to “put meat on the bones” of the omnibus plan that aims to simultaneously curb climate change, create jobs, and address income inequality.
Gunn-Wright had just joined the months-old nonprofit. Until then, it had been hard to get her phone calls returned; few had heard of the Green New Deal, and those who had thought it was an unattainable dream. “None of us expected the sit-in to blow up the way it did,” says Gunn-Wright, 29. Just like that, she says, “everything changed.”
After the loss, Ocasio-Cortez’s then-campaign manager Saikat Chakrabarti connected her with New Consensus. Before long, Gunn-Wright was drawing on her Oxford master’s degree in comparative social policy to sketch the framework for how the country could shift away from fossil fuels.
Residents in many low-income and minority neighborhoods like the South Side of Chicago are more likely to suffer from asthma, in part because of their proximity to air- and water-polluting industries.The challenge now facing the Yale alum is “figuring out how you create policies when you assume that no one and no place is disposable.
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