Nella Pineda-Marcon
Nella Pineda-Marcon, RN-BC has been a Registered Nurse since 1989, working at Mount Sinai Morningside, NYC as an Assistant Nursing Care Coordinator (ANCC) in the field of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She became a climate activist after Hurricane Sandy flooded New York City in 2012. In the aftermath of the storm, Nella went door to door in some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods to help shut-in residents and out-patients get supplies of medications and follow up services.
Nella is a member of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) and was elected to their Board of Directors in 2016. She became the chair of their Climate and Environmental Justice committee and later Board Secretary.
Nella is a pioneer member of the New York Relief Network (NYRN) which sends medical missions to places affected by climate-related disasters such as Puerto Rico, Mexico, the US Virgin Islands, the Amazon in Brazil, the Philippines, Guatemala and Cuba. She was also a volunteer first-responder to the Philippines a week after Super-Typhoon Haiyan hit the island of Leyte. At the People’s Climate March in Washington, DC in April 2017, she was a featured speaker at the National Mall.
Nella has worked with many climate coalitions such as New York Renews, Climate Jobs New York, and ALIGN. She testified at the State Senate in favor of enacting the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). She also represented the Health Care sector during the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid (2019) as an affiliate member of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED).