When Gina McCarthy left her post as Obama’s EPA Administrator, she was ready to leave the sometimes grueling world of Washington politics behind. She went into academia. In 2018, she founded the Harvard Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment (C-CHANGE).

But after observing Trump’s chaotic first term from the sidelines, she realized she wasn’t content to sit this one out.

Today, Gina is President of the Natural Resources Defense Council. There, she leads a multi-pronged approach to get climate champions elected into office — and elect Trump out.

We got Gina’s perspective from the center of this historic fight to take back democracy and hit the reset button on national climate action.