Bakeyah Nelson
Senior Advisor
Bakeyah Nelson is a senior advisor for the Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas. She leads the Funder Collaborative’s project on carbon capture and storage (CCS). Previously she served as principal of Community Health Collaborative Consulting, where she partnered with community, non-profit and philanthropic partners to move environmental justice, climate justice and health equity forward. Bakeyah also served as the global initiative director for Climate Imperative Foundation, as Executive Director of Air Alliance Houston and in Harris County Public Health’s Office of Policy and Planning. She is the co-founder of the Coalition for Environment, Equity, and Resilience (CEER) and is a founding member of the New Giving Collective. Bakeyah's doctorate in public policy, masters in applied sociology, and bachelor’s degree in psychology all come from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.