Sam Grant
External Advisory Board
Background & Expertise
Sam Grant has a 30+ year history of utilizing critical participatory action research on the intersectionality of racial, cultural, economic, gender, environmental and geographic justice. He has worked with and through formations from the grassroots level to state government, and from community-based initiatives to those of national and international scope. Through organizing and development initiatives, he strives to improve the quality of life for people and transform structural patterns that impede mutual wellbeing.
Sam Grant Embraces the Intersectionality of Social and Environmental Justice
Sam Grant is the Executive Director of Rainbow Research, a national company specializing in social justice research, evaluation, and capacity building. Sam’s work speaks to the intersectionality of environmental justice with other social issues, such as missing and murdered Indigenous women, the housing eviction crisis, economic justice, land access for BIPOC farmers, and collaborates with major green organizations to promote reforestation and afforestation following the leadership of Indigenous nations.