Dr. Shapley-Quinn is Executive Director for the Carolina Advocates for Climate, Health, and Equity (CACHE). She is a family physician and a graduate of UNC’s medical school and family medicine residency. She has worked in primary care for a number of years and served as Medical Director of Alamance County Health Department for many years. Kathleen has been active in advocacy around food security for decades and served as board member for an agency providing advocacy and education for children of incarcerated parents. Her commitment to climate work grows out of both a sense of justice (cultivated early in her Detroit upbringing) as well as a passion for the beauty of our planet and the people who inhabit it.