Valerie Hill Rawls, MAPT, is Co-founder of the EcoWomanist Institute (EWI), and Executive Director of the EcoWomanist Institute Southeast (EWISE).

Valerie Hill Rawls has a lifetime of experience at the intersections of social entrepreneurship, business and marketing, climate justice leadership, womanist ecospirituality and activism. The EWI (www.ecowomanist.org) mission is to promote the inclusion, ecological awareness, and community leadership of African American women within the ecospirituality, ecojustice, and ethics narratives. She has led and supported sustainability initiatives in the southeast US, Clean Energy Public Policy, Environmental Justice, Social Impact Bonds, and Public Health. In addition to coordinating and leading the EWISE rural GA “Power in Small Places” GOTV campaign, and the Clean and Prosperous America’s Georgia partners coalition for rural youth voter outreach for general elections.

A marketing expert with a four-decade career at the helm of Hill Rawls Marketing Consultants, her multinational client list ranged from Allstate to Zenith. Valerie managed marketing, strategic planning, branding and stakeholder engagement services for Visa, MasterCard, FedEx, University of Chicago Hospitals, and the City of Atlanta Rockefeller Foundation 100 Cities. Valerie is former Director of the New Georgia Project Black+Green Agenda Environmental Justice campaign. She serves on the boards of The Katie Geneva Cannon Center for Womanist Leadership, Climate Power GA Advisory, Presbyterian USA Committee for the Self Development of People (SDOP) and the St. Vincent de Paul GA Real Estate Development Committee.

Valerie earned a BA in Marketing Communications from Illinois State University and a Master of Arts in Public Theology (MAPT) from Union Presbyterian Seminary.