About Me!!

With over 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 two organizations: 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, and as Board Chair of Girl + Environment, a national community dedicated to sharing educational resources, tools, and information that ignite enthusiasm and active participation among Black + Brown young women, and non-binary individuals in the realm of climate and environmental justice. Eriqah’s "soul work" is to provide liberatory resources and build power with emerging young leaders and movement elders 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, her introduction to an organization chartered at neighboring Morehouse College helped her discover her passion for climate and environmental justice. 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). These early experiences would shift her life and lead her on the winding journey to where she and her career have landed at this time.

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 on the east side of Metro Atlanta with her husband James, their daughter Emmanuelle, son James Jr., and their dog Nox.