Alexia Leclercq is a grassroots organizer, scholar, and artist. She has led dozens of environmental justice campaigns from passing national climate and chemical reform legislation and fighting for clean water, to addressing aggregate mining pollution, relocating toxic tank farms, and organizing mutual aid. She is the cofounder of the environmental justice education organization Start:Empowerment and through a using a liberation pedagogy, her curriculum has reached 120,000 students across the United States.