Norris McDonald

He is the founder and president of the African American Environmentalist Association and the Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy.

[citation needed] Norris McDonald, a leading black environmentalist, is the founder and president of the African American Environmental Association (AAEA), an organization dedicated to protecting the environment, enhancing human, animal and plant ecologies, and increasing African American participation in the environmental movement.

McDonald's primary duties included media relations, public education, researching, lobbying, and fundraising.

The organization promoted recycling, cleaning storm drains, weatherizing, and climate-auditing homes in working-class neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.

McDonald himself has traveled to countries all over the world, including China and France, to tour nuclear power plants and examine alternate models for keeping the air clean and reducing global warming.

In December 2012 he was named one of Ebony magazine's Power 100, meaning one of the most influential African Americans in the nation.