Christine Nieves is a Puerto Rican community organizer and climate change activist.
Nieves focuses on building community resilience before and after environmental disasters, such as Hurricane Maria in 2017 and the series of earthquakes in Puerto Rico in 2020.
[1][2][3] Her organization, formerly called Apoyo Mutuo Mariana, provided free meals for a mountainous community that was heavily impacted by the storm.
[6][5] Nieves emphasizes the importance of community and self-sufficiency when preparing for climate change, in part because of the lack of government assistance after Hurricane Maria.
[3] Nieves founded Emerge Puerto Rico, a "climate change leadership startup" and non-profit.