Rhiana Gunn-Wright is a member of the Evergreen Advisory Board and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute where she is writing and promoting the Green New Deal among other projects. She was previously the policy director for Abdul El-Sayed’s 2018 Michigan gubernatorial campaign. A 2013 Rhodes Scholar, Gunn-Wright has also worked as the policy analyst for the Detroit Health Department, was a Mariam K. Chamberlain Fellow of Women and Public Policy at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and served on the policy team for former First Lady Michelle Obama. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 2011 with majors in African American studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She has written for The Guardian and was included in Time magazine’s list of the top women fighting to end climate change.