Lis-Marie Alvarado serves as the Senior Partnership Officer for Climate & Disaster Justice. Through a reparations and decolonizing grant-making approach, she provides resources to Indigenous and Black frontline organizations that are developing mechanisms that protect Mother Earth, address climate-forced displacement, and demand wealthy nations pay for loss and damage financing.

Lis-Marie is a non-profit leader with over a decade of experience leading multi-issue grassroots organizations to programmatic, administrative, and financial success. Before UUSC, she served as Executive Director of the American Friends Service Committee in Florida.