July 1st, 2025: The Baltimore Climate Summit with Cari Harris
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Abstract: The summit is an innovative gathering, inspired by forward-thinking programming ofCalifornia's Strategic Growth Council and designed to foster collaboration among agencies and organizations, build strong partnership capacity in the city and surrounding counties, and form strategic alliances dedicated to enhancing Baltimore's environmental infrastructure and programming capacity. This summit will serve as a platform for bringing awareness to the most pressing environmental issues in the region, illuminating the vast landscape of funding opportunities, initiating the development of a collective synchronized agenda to capitalize on funding opportunities available to the region, and creating a safe space for groups to discuss the challenges facing climate action strategies, including infrastructure, funding, administrative barriers, and more. Learn from industry experts and environmental advocates about the latest policies, finance strategies, community initiatives and solutions to combat the climate crisis.
Bio: Cari A. Harris is a multifaceted leader, dedicated to driving organizational, economic and community change. For the past four years, Cari A. Harris has led The Butterfly Effect, a profit-generating consultancy, providing strategic advisory and consulting services to over 100 clients. Her professional expertise as a commercial consultant has been instrumental in driving organizational improvement with a focus on stakeholder engagement, special projects/programs management, economics/finance and compliance. Cari is the founder of the Claude C. Thornton (CCT) Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to improving individual and community wellbeing through collective action and economics. Through the CCT Foundation, Cari founded the Greater Baltimore Climate Summit last year. The success of the inaugural summit is measured by impactful efforts including robust surveying of 846 regional stakeholders on priority climate issues, engaging over 609 event participants since last November, platforming the most prominent expert speakers on the subject matter, and aligning 22 partners on summit objectives including Morgan State University, Green & Healthy Homes Initiatives, Canopy by Hilton, John Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Environmental Defense Fund, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, National Aquarium, HBCU Environmental Justice Tech Collaborative, Interfaith Power & Light DMV and more. Currently, Cari sits on the advisory commission on Environmental Quality in Baltimore County and is a cohort member of Leadership Maryland's prestigious Emerging Leader Program, a six month professional development initiative designed for high-potential professionals poised to make significant contributions to their communities and industries. This appointment and executive leadership program further strengthen her leadership acumen and network within Greater Baltimore and Maryland's economic, environmental and civic landscape. Additionally, Cari is a Morgan State University alum with a Bachelors and Masters in Economics and an alumna of the Harbor Bank Emerging Developers Program's third cohort (2019-2020).
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