Valerie Martinez

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Valerie Martinez

Executive Director, Indigenous People’s Green Jobs Coalition
Minneapolis, Minn.

Valerie Martinez, a 31-year-old Mexican/Cree/Apache/Ojibwe woman,
spreads the benefits of the green economy to American-Indian
communities in Minnesota through the Indigenous People’s Green Jobs Coalition. She’s also working with urban-ag pioneer Will Allen to bring small-scale sustainable food production to Little Earth of United Tribes, an affordable-housing community for Native Americans in south Minneapolis. 

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