Olga Morales Pate

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Rural Community Assistance Partnership Incorporated

Chief Executive Officer

expertise:

Groundwater, Indigenous & tribal water issues, Racial + environmental justice, Utilities + infrastructure, Water + Sanitation Access, Water affordability, Water quality

state: DC

city: Washington

LGBTQ: NO

Tribal Affiliation: NO

languages: Spanish

race + ethnicity: Mexican American, Mexican, or Chicana-o-x Latina-e-o-x or Hispanic (e.g., Latin American, Central American, South American)

Olga Morales Pate is an accomplished and experienced national leader in rural water issues. For over 20 years, her focus has been the development of water and wastewater infrastructure to meet the needs of rural communities, the U.S. Territories, and Tribal lands. She has served on the EPA’s National Drinking Water Advisory Council (NDWAC), where she established strong working relationships with the agency while leading advisory efforts on issues such as climate change, hydraulic fracturing, carbon sequestration, and harmful algae blooms and cyanotoxins among others.

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Water + Sanitation Access

Trump is spending billions on border security. Some residents living there lack basic resources. – AZ Luminaria – AZ Luminaria

Unmet needs: In Arizona, 205,000 people on the border with Mexico are hours from a full-service hospital. [from AZ Luminaria]

Racial + environmental justice

BIPOC face worse climate inequity in unincorporated communities – Prism

When continued investment in practices that destroy the environment compounds our rapidly changing climate system, those with the least suffer the most [from Prism]