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Reflections
2025 Speakers
Lisa Garcia

Keynote

Lisa Garcia

Former Region II Administrator

Environmental Protection Agency

Lisa F. Garcia is an environmental lawyer focused on the advancement of environmental and climate justice and currently serves as adjunct faculty with Columbia University and NYU Law. She recently served as Regional Administrator for U.S. EPA’s Region 2 office covering New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and eight federally recognized Indian Nations. Prior to joining EPA, Garcia ran a climate solutions lab at Grist Magazine and served as Vice President for Litigation for Healthy Communities at Earthjustice. In 2009, Garcia joined the Obama administration to lead EPA’s environmental justice work, operating as Associate Administrator and Senior Advisor to EPA Administrators Lisa P. Jackson and Gina McCarthy. Garcia helped create and implement Plan EJ 2014. She led the design team for EJSCREEN, a key justice-oriented mapping program as well as the foundation for President Biden's Climate and Economic Justice mapping tool. Before 2009, Garcia served as Director of Environmental Justice and Indian Affairs at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Assistant Attorney General in the NYS Attorney General’s Office, and Associate Professor at Rutgers Law School.

Garcia is a proud graduate of Stony Brook University (SUNY) and Brooklyn Law School.

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