Heather McTeer Toney is an attorney, environmentalist, climate activist, speaker, and writer. She was the first Black, first female, and youngest mayor elected in Greenville, Mississippi, at age twenty-seven. In 2014, President Barack Obama appointed her as regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Southeast Region. Formerly the senior director for Moms Clean Air Force and vice president of community engagement for the Environmental Defense Fund, Heather currently serves as the executive director for the Beyond Petrochemicals Campaign.

She is the author of BEFORE THE STREETLIGHTS COME ON: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions.

Heather is frequently featured on various networks and outlets, including CNN, Apple’s The Problem with Jon Stewart, MSNBC, Democracy Now!, Fox News, the New York Times, Washington Post and DAME. She lives with her husband and three children in Oxford, Mississippi.