Affiliated Organization: Earth First!, Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands, Deep Water Earth First, Tar Sands Blockade, and Backbone Campaign
Areas of Training: Intro and Advanced Climb Training
Elizabeth Chiaravalli is an environmental educator with her heart in the Great Lakes region! She supports communities defending themselves from unconventional resource extraction by teaching direct action skills and facilitating workshops. Shes' excited about making these skills accessible, especially to women. Elizabeth has worked with direct action campaigns from, Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands stopping line 6B, to Deep Water Earth First against Fracking, mineral rights auctions in Michigan, also Shell to Sea in which Irish farmers have been fighting a Shell natural gas pipeline, to assisting Burmese refugees and migrants with funding in Thailand, to the Tar Sands Blockade stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline in East Texas. She also introduces people to healing aspects of nature and the potential for non-hierarchical organization as an outdoor educator facilitating team building courses at the Adventure Centre at Pretty Lake, in Mattawan, Michigan.
Elizabeth is coordinating Rolling Rebellion Actions. JOIN HERE