Nebraska Sierra Club Hosts Harvest Moon Banquet

The Nebraska Sierra Club (www.sierraclub.org/nebraska) was honored to welcome Aaron Mair, president of the national Sierra Club and decades-long urban environmental activist and regional/national environmental justice organizer and strategist, as the guest speaker for the 2016 Harvest Moon Banquet held on Oct. 21 at 6:00 p.m. at the Field Club of Omaha.

Mr. Mair works for the New York State Department of Health. He has held many leadership positions in the Sierra Club including serving as the chair of the National Environmental Justice and Community Partnerships and the National Diversity Council. Mr. Mair was the recipient of the EPA Environmental Quality Award for clean-up of PCBs on the Hudson River. He served as a New York League of Conservation Voters Board Member and he is the founder of Arbor Hill Environmental Justice. Mr. Mair has testified before the U.S. Congress on behalf of the Sierra Club.

This fundraiser helps the Nebraska Sierra Club in its extensive environmental advocacy efforts. For more information about the Sierra Club’s Nebraska Chapter, please visit www.sierraclub.org/nebraska.