Working Group Launch: Third Act New Mexico

Bill McKibben

Bill is founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He founded the first global grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, and serves as the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont. In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities.

Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit, a member of Third Act’s Advisory council is a writer, historian, and activist, and the author of over eighteen books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark. Rebecca has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a regular contributor to The Guardian. Rebecca recently launched the climate project Not Too Late .

Daniel Tso

Daniel is a former Navajo Nation Council delegate and an early member and leader of the Greater Chaco Coalition. Daniel has been leading the fight against the fracking scourge in New Mexico. Going forward, Daniel wants to focus with Third Act on environmental justice, health and social equity issues.

Sofia Jenkins-Nieto

Sofia is a 23 year old Xicana climate and environmental justice organizer who has been with Earth Care and YUCCA since 2022. She is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, with a BS in Environmental Science and a minor in Sustainability Studies. She has been involved in environmental organizing since she was in high school in 2016, working with fellow youth leaders to raise money and awareness for Standing Rock. She continued climate work at UNM with the student-led group UNM LEAF, which focused on fossil fuel divestment and climate action. She then got involved with Earth Care during the El Puente Leadership Academy, and has since been working with the YUCCA and Environmental Justice campaigns and programs. She currently serves as the YUCCA Organizing Program Coordinator.

YUCCA’s mission is to organize a youth-led intergenerational & intersectional grassroots climate justice movement in NM that is powerful enough to hold leaders accountable and force the passage of climate policies that address the science, move us swiftly and justly toward carbon neutrality, and end our abusive dependence on fossil fuel extraction.

Camilla Feibelman

Camilla Feibelman serves as Director of the Rio Grande Chapter of Sierra Club, which represents over 10,000 members. Camilla works with hundreds of volunteers throughout New Mexico and West Texas to protect special places like the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks and Albuquerque’s Rio Grande Bosque, and to help curb global warming while stimulating the economy through renewable energy development. Feibelman was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate as a Trustee on the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation in 2014.

She has a bachelor’s in environmental biology from Columbia University in New York. She was named a Udall Scholar in 1997.

Camilla was born and raised in New Mexico, the land of enchantment, where, attending Girl Scout camp in the Jemez Mountains each summer, her love of nature blossomed. She is a graduate of Albuquerque High School.  Camilla lives in Albuquerque with her husband Xavier Obando, her stepdaughter and son.