The Los Angeles Political Committee is honored to announce our 17th Annual Political Leadership Awards hosted by the Angeles Chapter on August 10, 2024 from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Downtown LA Sierra Club Regional Office. The event will be held in the 2nd floor atrium which has both indoor and outdoor gathering space. Your ticket includes light hors d'oeuvres and alcohol/non-alcohol beverages (2 drinks per person).

 

Click on the links below to learn more about the environmental champions we will be honoring at this year’s event.

 

Ignorance is just one step away from awareness. Once we have awareness, we can change. The more awareness we can spread, the greater the changes can be made.

 

As new products are introduced, we, as consumers, go with the trend. Who doesn’t have fond memories of a summer picnic with that big Tupperware bowl of potato salad and little plastic container of pickles? But now we know that acidic contents, high fat content, and temperature changes all combine to leach plastics from the container, and we are actually ingesting the bowl with the salad.

In the past three months, the Activist Academy 2024 program has created a space for young leaders to find a home for their activism, After yet another successful session, the 2024 program has come to a close. However, their activist journeys have just begun. I am more than honored to have experienced this program for a second year in a row and learned alongside 20 new brilliant and passionate young activists, who want the same thing I do for all of our communities - an environmentally and socially just future.