Joye Braun and Svitlana Romanko, Honored with Rose Braz Award for Bold Activism
2022 Award Goes to Ukrainian Climate Scientist, Late Indigenous Pipeline Fighter
By the Center for Biological DiversityDec. 22, 2022
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OAKLAND, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity today awarded the 2022 “Rose Braz Award for Bold Activism” to Svitlana Romanko and posthumously to the late Joye Braun.
Romanko is Ukraine’s leading climate scientist and a grassroots climate campaigner. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, she founded Razom We Stand and launched the Stand With Ukraine campaign with more than 820 groups. It calls on world leaders to end their fossil fuel dependence on Russia and phase out fossil fuels globally.