Los Angeles, CA
WHO WE ARE
WHO WE ARE
WHO WE ARE
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We are a mother-daughter duo who have spent the last 15 years fighting to end urban oil extraction in Los Angeles and across California. We are channeling that shared passion into the SCYLC Fellowship.
Nalleli Cobo & Monic Uriarte
Founders, SCYLC Fellowship
Nalleli Cobo
Founder & Co-Director
Nalleli Cobo is a South Los Angeles environmental justice activist who helped shut down a toxic urban oil-drilling site at age 19 and sparked major policy changes banning new oil extraction across the city and county. A Goldman Environmental Prize winner, she continues to lead movements against environmental racism and for community health.
Monic Uriarte
Co-Director
Monica Uriarte is a longtime South Los Angeles environmental justice advocate and co-founder of People Not Pozos, where she helped lead the successful campaign to shut down the toxic AllenCo oil site and advance major city, county, and state protections against urban drilling. She now serves as Director of Health Programs at Esperanza Community Housing, continuing her work for community health and environmental justice.
Monic Uriarte
"Fellowship
Details
Designed for youth ages 18-25 in the Los Angeles area, this 10-month fellowship offers bi-weekly, in-person workshops led by experts in the movement (with hybrid options as needed) held on Saturdays from 12–3 PM, starting February 7, 2026, at the Mercado La Paloma, with the GIS course held weekly to give fellows more hands-on practice, which begins August 8, 2026.
Topics
Campaign Building
Chris Lehman | NextGen Policy
Climate Policy
Andrea Vidaurre | The People's Collective for Environmental Justice
Health and Climate
Dr. Tara Benesh
Community Organizing
mark! Lopez | East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Civic Engagement
Caleb Rabinowitz | Chief of Staff to Assembly Member Isaac Bryan
Running for Office
Nathan Castillo | Elect.org
Clean Energy
Climate Reality Project
Public Speaking and Storytelling
Aimee Dewing | Environmental Working Group
Ocean Conservation
Bodhi Patil | Innerlight
GIS Mapping
CDLS | UCLA
And More!
Fellows will receive a $5,000 stipend and, upon completing the program, will have the opportunity to apply for seed funding to launch their own community impact projects.
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