About Me!!

With almost 15 years in environmental, climate, and social justice non-profit work, Eriqah R. K. Vincent (she/her) self identifies as an EcoWomanist, committed to the intersectional fight for climate justice through her spiritual and moral connection to creation, black women, and people of the African Diaspora globally.

Eriqah has worked for Partnership for Southern Equity managing the organization’s “Just” Energy Portfolio and pioneering its youth leadership program(s) and for Power Shift Network leading engagement and leadership development for the network's 120+ member organizations. She currently serves on the Board of the Southeast Climate and Energy Network, a network committed to building a powerful, inclusive, diverse and interconnected Southeastern climate movement that strengthens capability and enables organizations to maximize impacts at a local and regional level, among other things. Eriqah’s "soul work" is to provide liberatory resources to and power build with emerging young leaders and movement elders alike in the African Diaspora globally.

A proud native of Newark, NJ, Eriqah is a 2010 departmental honors graduate of Spelman College with a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Women’s Studies. While at Spelman, she was an active member and on the executive board of several organizations; however, it was her introduction to an organization chartered at neighboring Morehouse College that helped her discover her passion for climate and environmental justice. She went on to serve as Internal Director of that organization in her senior year and helped organize two of the largest African-American student delegations to the Power Shift Convergence, once in 2009 and again in 2011. Outside of school, Eriqah worked extensively with the Let’s Retrofit A Million Project and was the Georgia Coal Diversity Organizer intern for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE). All of these early experiences would shift the course of her life and lead her on the winding journey to where she and her career have currently landed.

Among her other career achievements, Eriqah has been a member of the Diverse Environmental Leaders (DEL) National Speakers Bureau, the Youth Perspective Climate Justice Work Group with the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, and the Advisory Board for the HBCU Green Fund. 

Eriqah lives in Metro Atlanta with her husband James, their vibrant toddler Emmanuelle Grace, and their 8-year-old Dachshund Mix, Nox.