Organizer. Facilitator. Educator. Artist.

Zakia M. Elliott is a visionary working within the intersections of the environmental justice, climate justice, and food and land justice movements.

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Zakia Elliott, during the Climate Justice Alliance's 2024 Black Caucus Jubilee: "Nothing can stop the water! ...and that's how I feel about us."
Zakia Elliott and Sonia Galiber of Soil Generation, featured in "Future Visions Lab" documentary, Episode 6: Environmental Justice (2024)
Zakia Elliott, Soil Generation is awarded the 2022 Sustain PHL Sustainability Next Gen Award
“Racial justice and transit justice, they’re all tied up together,” said Elliott. “Transit issues are an environmental justice issue.”
The oral histories collected from the workers of AFSCME DC 33 Local 427 is a collaboration with Professor Alison Kenner of Drexel University’s Philadelphia Health & Environment Ethnography Lab and Zakia Elliott of Philadelphia Climate Works
“The issues that we’ve been talking about in the 1860s are still the issues that we’re talking about today,” said Zakia Elliott, coordinator of the Philadelphia Climate Works coalition and the lead organizer of the event. “Who is able to ride our tro
"We must continue mobilizing for change not despite our frustrations and sorrows but because of them. Climate change is a social justice issue. As such, we must amplify our voices, not silence them." - Zakia Elliott