Anthony serves as a Policy Coordinator and Analyst with the Black Alliance for Peace and the Black Hive with Movement for Black Lives. Prior to assuming these positions, Anthony was the Policy Coordinator and Green New Deal Policy Lead with the Climate Justice Alliance, where he assisted with developing and promulgating local, state, and federal organizing and policy strategy for the Alliance’s then 74 grassroots, frontline-led organizations across the country.
A veteran of social justice campaigns, Anthony helped lead the effort to make the former Colorado Health Insurance Cooperative the first health insurance provider in the state’s history to remove transgender exclusions from all their policies in 2012.
He has acted as a policy advisor for numerous candidates for elected office including Senator Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign in 2020, and Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaigns in 2020 and 2016 when he represented the campaign during testimony to the DNC Platform Committee.
Anthony was selected by Grist.org in 2016 as one of the “50 Environmentalists You’ll Be Talking About,” and recognized as one of New York City’s 100 most influential environmental leaders in 2022 by City and State Magazine.
He has written numerous articles about the axiomatic nexus of the climate crisis and racial injustice and has spoken on the subject at universities throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Anthony serves on the Board of Directors of Friends of the Earth, Backbone Campaign, Climate Critical Earth, and Center for Sustainable Economy. He is a proud alumnus of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman ROI Community and is blessed to be the father of his energetic and very loquacious 9-year-old son, Zahir Cielo (aka Bean).
He received his double BA in Environmental Science and Policy and Jazz Composition, and his MA in Community Development, Environmental Science, and Public Policy from Clark University in Worcester, MA
