Ally Harris is a former college-level English and communications instructor who came to climate justice through the classroom. While teaching Food Ethics and Social Responsibility, she began to see how climate change, labor exploitation, and racial inequity are deeply intertwined.

In 2020, Ally left academia and moved into nonprofit communications to have a more direct impact on working-class and frontline communities. She brought her teaching background into popular education and communications work that makes complex housing and climate policy more accessible to community members and advocates.

Before joining Climate Solutions, Ally led strategic communications for Texas Housers and Oregon Just Transition Alliance, where she helped advance campaigns on housing and climate justice. She hopes to bring a strong justice lens to her work at Climate Solutions.

Ally holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers Workshop and lives in Portland, Oregon, where she enjoys birding and organizing literary events.