Speaker Bios
Suellen Breakey, Ph.D., RN, is Director of the Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health, a Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at MGH Institute of Health Professions, and a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Her clinical background includes cardiac surgery, critical care, hospice care, and global health nursing. For over 10 years, she was a leader with Team Heart, a nonprofit organization that provides RHD screening, cardiac surgical care and follow-up, and patient/provider education in Rwanda. Her scholarship interests include the impact of climate change on human health and well-being, bioethics, and global health ethics. Dr. Breakey is a co-author of Global Nursing in the 21st Century, which was published in 2015. She co-chaired the National League for Nursing’s 2022 Vision Statement on Climate Change and Health. Dr. Breakey has published widely and presented locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Susan Clayton, Ph.D., is the Whitmore-Williams Professor at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Dr. Clayton’s research examines people’s relationship with the natural environment, how it is socially constructed, and how climate change affects mental health and well-being, with a particular focus on climate anxiety. She is author or editor of six books, including Identity and the Natural Environment, Conservation Psychology, and Psychology and Climate Change, and is currently the editor of the Cambridge Elements series in Applied Social Psychology. A fellow of the American Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychology, she was a lead author on the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Stacia Clinton, RDN. LDN., is founder and principal at Collective Well, bringing experience as a health professional, executive leader, and movement designer to support individuals, groups, and organizations in building inner development skills that foster well-being while achieving mission. Stacia spent nearly two decades in leadership with the global non-profit organization Health Care Without Harm and US-based Practice Greenhealth, spearheading transformative, systems-level initiatives at the intersection of human and environmental health for thousands of health systems worldwide. Currently she is lead planner for Well-Being for Impact, an initiative to create intentional spaces and opportunities that nurture well-being among change-makers by cultivating essential inner development skills necessary for outer impact. She is a contributing author to the book Promoting Biodiversity in Food Systems and her commentary featured in outlets such as National Public Radio (NPR), USA Today, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, and the Lancet.
Grace Kindeke, Program Director at the New Hampshire Center for Justice & Equity, is an artist, an immigrant rights activist and racial justice advocate who grounds her work in a Black feminist, Afro-futurist and liberation practice. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she was raised in New Hampshire where she currently lives with her family. For the last five years, she has worked as the Program Coordinator of the American Friends Service Committee NH Program. She holds a double B.A. in Africana Studies and Sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and is the recipient of: the 2017 MIT Infinite Mile Award for Community Building, the 2022 NAACP Youth Excellence in Service award, the 2023 NH Martin Luther King Jr. award, NH Union Leader's 2024 Forty Under 40 and the 2025 UMASS Boston Harriet Tubman award. In her spare time, she is an avid reader who enjoys long walks, musical theater and spending time with loved ones.
Anthony S. Poore, President/CEO, New Hampshire Center for Justice & Equity, has worked in support of transformative systems change and equitable and sustainable communities for more than 33 years as a community organizer and economic development practitioner, academic, workforce housing and public health advocate, policy analyst, researcher and executive. Prior to the launch of the NH Center for Justice & Equity in 2022, Anthony managed AP Consulting Group, working with traditional and non-traditional financial institutions and community-based organizations helping support public-private community economic development projects. From 2018 to 2021, Poore served as the Executive Director of New Hampshire Humanities, an affiliated organization of the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 2010 – 2018, Poore worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, in a variety of leadership roles, directing research and policy initiatives of the Boston Fed’s Regional and Community Outreach Department. Prior to that, Poore served as the Assistant Dean for Southern New Hampshire University’s School of Economic Development. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority, and Walden Mutual Bank.
Kurt Yuengling, Community Engagement Specialist, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, started with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services’ (NHDES) Environmental Health Program in November 2023 in a new Community Engagement position. He works with the NHDES Technical Services team working on climate action planning under the EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program. Prior, Kurt taught earth and environmental sciences at community colleges in Michigan and Arizona, worked as a geologist in Alaska and New Hampshire, and worked in wetlands and stormwater compliance programs at the NHDES and the State of Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geological sciences from the State University of NY at Geneseo and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
