Volunteers

Thank you for your interest in becoming a volunteer with CleanAirNow! As a member, you play a crucial role in supporting our mission to advocate for clean air and environmental justice in our communities. Here’s how you can get involved.

What You Can Do as a Member:

Participate in Monthly Meetings

Stay informed about important initiatives affecting your community, engage in volunteer opportunities, and attend community workshops to support local efforts.

Support and Share Our Community Work

Assist in spreading awareness about environmental health and air quality education. Volunteer at events, attend outreach sessions, help with monitor maintenance, and represent CleanAirNow at health-related gatherings.

Contribute to Monitoring Efforts

Get involved in critical activities such as truck counts and air monitoring. Your participation contributes valuable data to assess air quality impacts and identify areas for improvement.

Membership Benefits:

  • Truck Counts: Contribute to our efforts in monitoring truck counts, vital for assessing air quality impacts.
  • Air Monitoring: Engage in air monitoring activities to track pollution levels and identify areas for improvement.
  • Access to Tools and Technologies: Gain access to personal exposure monitoring equipment and other cutting-edge technologies to support our advocacy work.

How to Sign Up for Membership

Joining CleanAirNow is simple! Fill out the form below with your contact information. While we ask for a donation to support CleanAirNow’s operations,
we understand that financial constraints may exist. If you’re unable to donate, you can still contribute through service commitments.
We welcome members of all backgrounds and abilities.

Your commitment to CleanAirNow strengthens
our collective efforts to promote clean air
and environmental justice.
Thank you for being part of our
community-driven initiative!

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Atenas Mena

Atenas Mena is the Environmental Health Director and shares a co-leadership role at CleanAirNow. Atenas was born and raised in Kansas City and is a proud first-generation Mexican American. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Avila University in 2014 and went on to receive her master’s in nursing leadership from Missouri Western State University in 2019.

In addition to working as a nurse, Atenas received extensive environmental health training in the field, working with the Children’s Mercy Environmental Health Program team, as both an educator and a team coordinator. She has worked continuously throughout the last few years with CleanAirNow through boots-on-the-ground projects, served on the board of directors, and has recently transitioned into the current leadership role as Environmental Health Director. Atenas centers her work around reducing health inequities, educating communities on environmental health impacts, and empowering community members to have a voice and fight for equity and environmental justice.

Atenas recently received The Sapling Award in recognition of her outstanding commitment and leadership in environmental health nursing. This Award seeks to recognize a nurse leader who goes beyond everyday nursing endeavors to actively promote and protect environmental and human health and advance environmental justice.

Beto Lugo Martinez

Beto is an environmental justice organizer and co-executive director of CleanAirNow. He serves to raise community voices in the fight against environmental racism and to overcome the systemic exclusion of frontline communities from the decision-making process. His lived experience, growing up fenceline to a petrochemical facility continues to drive his work at the intersection of climate, environmental justice, and public health. He is a founding member of the California Environmental Justice Coalition, Co-Founder of La Union Hace La Fuerza, a farmworker justice organization and member of national CJ & EJ networks including the EJ Leadership Forum, Building Equity and Alignment (BEA) and the National Leadership Advisory Board Member of the Moving Forward Network.

Beto’s contributions to the movement include organizing, legislation that prioritizes environmental justice and community-led research amongst many other community-engaged initiatives that directly inform state policy. He has co-authored multiple academic publications on community-based participatory research, air pollution, data accessibility, and community engagement. In August 2023 was invited to continue serving through 2025 as a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act Advisory Committee, to represent a grassroots frontline perspective. He also serves in advisory board roles of professional associations and academic institutions, such as the American Public Health Association’s Center for Climate, Health and Equity, Children’s Environmental Health Sciences Translational Research at USC, Community Engagement Core of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center at USC, Health Effects Institute Environmental Justice Advisory Group and USC MPH Public Health Advisory Board Member for the Trojan Scholars for Advancement in Public Health.

Beto is currently involved in a research project titled “Building Momentum to Bridge Climate and Health Across KU Campuses and the Community supported by the Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative, The Commons, and the Office of Research at the University of Kansas.”