New York
Nora Brown
New York Community Organizer, Southern Tier
Nora Brown (she/her) is a queer mom living in the southern Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, on unceded ancestral land of the Gayogohono (Cayuga Nation). With a background in sustainable food production and fat-positive yoga, she came to climate justice organizing through her 5+ years as a volunteer leader with her local Mothers Out Front team. Nora grew up in northern Pennsylvania, and witnessing the devastation and exploitation wrought on the land and people there at the hands of the “natural” gas fracking industry has deeply informed her activism.
Nora loves to play chess with her son, Allen, and build fairy houses in the woods with her daughter, Rose. When she gets the chance, she loves to garden, save seeds, craft, hike, read, and sing around a campfire with friends.
Nora has been part of Mothers Out Front since 2018, after she felt the need to plunge into climate action after she read the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report that year. Since then, the community she has cultivated with her local team and the empowerment she feels doing her small part has become a huge part of her life and who she is.
“For years I avoided engaging more deeply with climate issues because I was scared my anxiety would worsen with more frequent exposure to the enormous and terrifying issue of the climate crisis, but I have been relieved to find that the opposite has been true.”
