Moira Birss
Moira Birss is an independent consultant providing visionary strategic advising and public policy design for the just transition. Moira has over twenty years of climate, economic justice, human rights and social justice advocacy, research, campaigning, and on-the-ground experience. She has built and led corporate campaigns and policy advocacy strategies and designed and conducted cutting-edge research. Moira’s issue areas of expertise include climate financial regulation, home insurance, carbon markets, Indigenous peoples’ rights, forest protection and deforestation, public policy in Latin America, and human rights defender protection. Moira holds a BA in Latin American Studies from the University of Michigan and an MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
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How the insurance crisis threatens affordable housing development
Brendan Mitchell and Seana O’Shaugnessy both help run non-profits focused on affordable housing preservation, development and management, though they do so from opposite sides of the …
How Do We Fix Public Insurance Programs?
Hurricane season has begun in the U.S. – and is predicted to be “extraordinary.” Wildfire season has started and thousands of acres have already burned. These …
Disaster Response and Recovery Systems are Failing Black and Brown Communities in Texas
Andrew Barley is co-director of rebuild and voter engagement at West Street Recovery, a horizontally–structured and worker–directed disaster recovery nonprofıt based in Northeast Houston, Texas. Barley …