Amira Diamond &
Melinda Kramer

Amira Diamond and Melinda Kramer are founders of Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA), which works to protect the environment, end the climate crisis and ensure a just, thriving world by empowering women-led climate initiatives and eco-enterprises. WEA programs provide women leaders — who are often most affected by environmental issues but underrepresented in decision-making processes — with mentorship, skills, business training, funding and a global network of support.

WEA has worked with more than 250 partners in 31 countries, enabling women to reach more than 24 million people with clean water, energy access, regenerative farming practices and climate initiatives. WEA leaders are working to protect forests and rivers, save threatened indigenous seeds, launch sustainable farms, conserve coral reefs, and protect land rights. They are fostering climate resiliency through tree nurseries, seed banks and clean cooking technology; and they are supporting development of microbusinesses, improving financial stability and inspiring younger generations. With WEA support, Indigenous women in Indonesia are taking action to conserve ancestral lands. In Kenya, women’s groups grew 123,000 trees in Kakamega, the country’s last tropical rainforest, and trained communities to plant saplings for agroforestry, erosion control and climate adaptation. And in Los Angeles, WEA Accelerator leaders at Seeds of Carver Urban Farm Collective are piloting bioremediation methods such as planting sunflowers to naturally detoxify the soil and air.

WEA recently launched Rising Tides, Rising Women to advance WEA’s global work supporting thousands of frontline, women-led climate justice leaders, enable the acquisition of land crucial to climate protection and resilience efforts, and resource WEA’s work for years to come.