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Community Partnerships

Camilla Feibelman

Camilla grew up in New Mexico and studied environmental biology at Columbia University. She began at the Sierra Club as a student activist and director of the Sierra Student Coalition. She went on to work in the media department to support communities in their fight for environmental justice and to launch the Sierra Club's first national Spanish language column. In 2005 Camilla moved to Puerto Rico to establish the Sierra Club's first Spanish speaking chapter. In its first four years of existence, the chapter grew to more than 900 members.

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Isabel Margarita Long

Isabel is a native of Santiago, Chile and is currently based in Washington, D.C. She holds a bachelors degree in journalism from a Chilean University and a Masters in Political Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Isabel came to the Sierra Club in 2007 to help expand the Club's work with Latino communities around the country. She works with national Latino organizations to develop projects related to global warming, green jobs, outings, and energy efficiency.

To promote these projects, she works with the Spanish media department, producing bilingual material to engage the Latino community in environmental protection. Isabel also works with Sierra Club staff and volunteers to provide trainings to help them build successful Latino partnerships and to promote cultural sensitivity and diversity.

Isabel has worked as a political radio journalist in Chile and in Washington DC and has been organizing around human rights issues for ten years. Her journalism work includes interviews with many Latin American political leaders. Previous to coming to the Sierra Club, Isabel was Director of Communications for the Hispanic Community for a Washington law firm, where she worked with local Latino organizations and the Spanish media educating the community about their rights in case of work accidents.