Charlotte Nash
Co-Founder

Charlotte is a Company Artist with Oregon Ballet Theatre in Portland, OR. She is also an undergraduate student at The Ohio State University studying Health Sciences and Epidemiology.

​She has a passionate concern for the disproportionate impacts climate change has on the public health of vulnerable populations. She is very excited to be meshing her love for the arts with the pull she has towards protecting the health of the earth and its inhabitants.

Charlotte inhabits the homeland of the Cowlitz Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. 

Keaton Leier
Co-Founder

​Keaton grew up in Saskatoon, Canada but moved to Winnipeg at 17 to pursue his career as a ballet dancer. In addition to balancing ballet and academics, Keaton has always made spending time outdoors a priority as well as dedicated time to environmentally focused university classes. His professional career has taken him all over North America dancing in Winnipeg, Houston and Atlanta, and he now lives and works in Toronto, dancing with the National Ballet. 

​Throughout his time as a dancer Keaton has remained passionate about environmental justice. He’s a part of local environmental organizations and is always working to practice a sustainable lifestyle.

Keaton is excited to be a part of ACC because it combines his passion for the arts with his commitment to the Earth’s health.

Keaton currently resides on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. 

Madeline Bez
Co-Founder

Madeline is currently working as a freelance dancer based out of New York City. When she was 18 she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and seeing the quickly melting glaciers brought a new awareness and urgency to the importance of climate change. Though she has followed the path to become a professional ballet dancer, the climate crisis has always remained important to her.

She is looking forward to, through the ACC, having a greater impact on helping those most affected by climate change and trying to reverse its effects.

​Madeline is currently living on the homelands of the Munsee Lenape.​

Cora Cliburn
Outreach Director ​

​Cora is a freelance dance artist working in Chicago and San Francisco. Growing up in New Mexico, Cora witnessed firsthand the impacts of drought and wildfires, and was drawn to environmental justice by her mom’s activism and work in renewable energy. Cora earned a degree in environmental anthropology at Stanford and also works as an independent consultant on food sustainability. She is enthusiastic about building environmental awareness and instigating climate action in the performing arts.

Cora currently lives in Huichin, the ancestral and unceded territory of Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone people, also known as Berkeley, CA.

Shahamat Uddin
Communications Director

Originally from Roswell, GA, Shahamat Uddin is currently working in strategic communications and lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with his cat, Butter. Additionally he is a slam poet and has performed competitively in several cities across America. He was a founding member of the Tulane University slam poetry team, Rhyme Verses Rhythm. With several of his original poems, the team placed 6th in the world at the 2018 international CUPSI competition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

His family reigns from Bangladesh and his most recent poem touches on an emotional viewpoint of climate change and how it affects his families homeland. 

Shahamat currently inhabits the traditional lands of the Munsee Lenape People.