Jalonne White-Newsome

Jalonne White-Newsome is federal chief environmental justice officer at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. She works to implement President Biden’s environmental justice executive order, release the environmental justice scorecard and advance the Justice40 Initiative. Prior to this, White-Newsome was the founder and CEO of Empowering a Green Environment and Economy consultancy. Previously, she was a consultant for a University of Michigan School of Public Health research project on climate change and extreme heat. White-Newsome was also a professorial lecturer in environmental and occupational health at George Washington University from 2012 to 2023. She earned a doctorate in environmental health sciences from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.