Valerie Hill Rawls

Valerie Hill Rawls is an environmentalist, activist, ecowomanist, and the founder of Hill Rawls Marketing Consultants. The city of Atlanta included the Integrated African American faith-based, civil, human, environmental rights and disaster preparedness program developed by Valerie Hill Rawls in the City of Atlanta’s Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities plan. Valerie is a 2013 Chicago cohort Climate Reality Leader. Over the past decade, she has engaged diverse stakeholders in sustainability initiatives within the Southeast region, ranging from Equitable Transit Oriented Development (ETOD), the Clean Energy Public Policy, Ecotheolgy, Environmental Justice, Social Impact Bonds, Homelessness, and Public Health. In collaboration with DeepRiver Consulting, Valerie conducted research along with the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy Capstone student program to analyze why low-wealth communities lack the Safe Routes to School (SRTS,) a national public safety program for children in middle-to-upper income communities. Valerie, along with Veronica Kyle, is the cofounder of the EcoWomanist Institute (EWI). EWI’s mission is to increase the inclusion, ecological awareness, environmental leadership, soul care, and self-care of African-American women and women from the African Diaspora.