Regina Hall Instagram – It’s been a couple weeks, right?! With everything going on in the world, I hope my #WCW serves as a spot of encouragement in your day. With that said, today my post is dedicated to environmental justice crusader, and Co-founder & Executive Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Peggy Shepard (@weact4ej). Peggy’s career has been built around #empowering and being a voice for the disenfranchised. On #MartinLutherKing Day in 1988, Peggy was one of seven people arrested for holding up traffic to protest sewage polluting in a local river system. She turned that into co-founding WE ACT to campaign for environmental health and justice for the West Harlem community. WE ACT’s mission is to build #HealthyCommunities by ensuring that #PeopleOfColor and/or low income residents participate meaningfully in the creation of sound and fair #EnvironmentalHealth and protection policies and practices. To this day she is calling out the lapses of federal agencies in addressing #EnvironmentalJustice, and demanding that the next administration be held accountable instead of “taking stuff they are [already] doing and calling it environmental justice.” We stand with you Peggy. To learn more about her journey, and lend support follow @weact4ej