To showcase and keep alive Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of unity and community service, the Center for Energy Education will host a celebration Thursday, January 11, highlighting its relationship to environmental justice through remarks from a leader within North Carolina’s highest court.
From 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at its campus at 460 Airport Road, Roanoke Rapids, C4EE will welcome elected officials, community leaders, students and the public to commemorate area residents who exemplify Dr. King’s character and the virtues he taught around love, peace and justice.
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs will address the parallels of Dr. King’s principles of racial equity, nonviolent social change and community service within her advocacy and reconciliation for the disenfranchised and marginalized.
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Appointed to the state Supreme Court by Governor Roy Cooper, Riggs was formerly a judge on the state’s Court of Appeals. Prior to her tenure as judge, she led the Southern Coalition for Social Justice as the co-executive director and chief counsel for voting rights.
A civil rights litigator and community lawyer, Riggs specializes in electoral reforms related to voting rights and redistricting cases and has twice argued before the United States Supreme Court.
She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees as well as her Juris Doctor from the University of Florida.
“Climate change and environmental justice advocacy are fundamental aims of our organization,” said Mozine Lowe, executive director of C4EE. “Justice Riggs will highlight her real-world civic engagement demonstrations of the possibilities — the policy changes — that allow renewable energy education and training to address lasting change and growth in underserved communities. She, like the award recipients we recognize today, showcases a true measure of community service.”
