Lorah Steichen
Lorah Steichen (she/her) is the Global Systems and Policy Manager at the Climate and Community Institute (CCI), where she leads research and strategy development on international financial systems, militarism, and global industrial policy. In this role, she works closely with partners and movement allies to advance reparative internationalist policy and build a just global economy for a safer climate future. Before joining CCI, Lorah contributed to the Biodiversity Capital Research Collective and the UBC Centre for Climate Justice, and held roles with the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program. She holds a BA in politics–environmental studies from Whitman College and an MA in geography from the University of British Columbia. Lorah lives in Seattle, Washington.
All Contributions
Redirecting Energy Transition Minerals from the Pentagon Fleet to the Public Good
The Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels, but it is also the US federal government’s leader in electrifying some of its transportation—especially …
The Climate Crisis and the US War Machine
Warmaking, and the industries that supply and profit from it, fuels the climate crisis. Only a reparative approach can begin to reverse militarization and environmental breakdown. …
Exporting Extinction: How the International Financial System Constrains Biodiverse Futures
This major report sets out to answer the question of why governments in the Global South have routinely failed to achieve biodiversity goals and targets. Rather …
