Climate and Environmental Advocacy in These Times Register

Date and Time:
Thu, Sep 11, 2025; 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Eastern)

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Gateway Group Membership Meeting

1 Pine St, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA

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Organized By: Gateway Group

Location: 1 Pine St, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA

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Event Organizers:
Bill Beren
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Nationally recognized waterfront and climate activist, Vivien Li, will speak about "Climate and Environmental Action in These Times" on Thursday night, September 11th, 7 p.m., at the Montclair Fire Department Headquarters, 1 Pine St. Montclair., 2nd Floor Training Room. The meeting is free and is open to all Sierra Club members and the public at large.

Free parking is available next door to the Fire Dept headquarters in the Bay Street Station Parking Deck. The facility is also accessible by public transit via NJ Transit Rail Boonton Line Bay St Station and NJ Transit bus lines 11, 28, 29 & 34.

Vivien Li began her environmental activism shortly after the first Earth Day in 1970 while a student at Ridgewood HS. While a student at Barnard College, Li worked part time as an environmental planner in the administration of Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson. She was elected to the Sierra Club Board of Directors from 1986 to 1992, chaired the Club's newly established Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Task Force from 1990 to 1994, and led The Boston Harbor Association from 1991 to 2015 as an advocate for a clean, alive, accessible, and climate resilient waterfront.

After graduating from Barnard with a degree in environmental management, Li became a community fellow in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning from 1976 to 1977. Li was conference coordinator for City Care, a national conference on the urban environment held in 1979 in Detroit, Michigan, which brought together 700 environmental and civil rights activists associated with conference sponsors the Sierra Club, National Urban League, and the Urban Environmental Conference and Foundation.

Li served as the Sierra Club's New Jersey Chapter Chair and Regional Conservation Committee Chair prior to her election to the Club's Board of Directors. In 1983, she earned a Master's of Public Administration and Urban and Regional Planning from Princeton University. Li went on to work for the Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner and as senior staff to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.

Li received the Sierra Club's Walter Starr Award in 2015 and has continued her Sierra Club involvement on the Club's Finance and Risk Management Committee and its Investment Advisory Committee.

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