Formal complaint against PRI signatory Nuveen

Trillion-dollar pension fund TIAA faces climate-washing complaint brought by hundreds of professors and scientists

New York, NY — More than 300 clients of the $1.2 trillion retirement giant TIAA filed a formal complaint today with the UN-sponsored Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) initiative, alleging TIAA’s substantial investments in fossil fuels and deforestation violate TIAA’s climate pledges and commitment to the six Principles for Responsible Investment.

TIAA participants, including the academics Bill McKibben, Michael Mann, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Dipesh Chakrabaty, and Judith Butler, are filing the complaint to highlight TIAA’s investments in the drivers of climate change, including at least $78 billion in fossil fuels, $9.1 billion of which are coal industry bonds. Such investments escalate the climate emergency while violating the commitments TIAA made to PRI through its subsidiary and asset manager, Nuveen. TIAA also invests heavily in timber and industrial agriculture linked to deforestation and illegality. Deforestation is second to fossil fuels as a driver of climate change. The complainants call on the PRI to investigate and address TIAA’s “irresponsible investments and systematic greenwashing practices.”

Bill McKibben, author, climate expert, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, and TIAA client, commented: “Most of the people that this giant fund serves are teachers, members of a profession that takes intellectual honesty — and the future — seriously. Time for TIAA to do the same.”

The complainants argue that TIAA’s refusal to consider fossil fuel divestment violates its fiduciary duty because burning fossil fuels ignores the interests of its clients and harms their long-term financial well-being.

TIAA is one of the world’s largest holders of bonds across the coal value chain — ranking 4th globally — including holding over $91 million in bonds of the conglomerate Adani that owns the controversial Carmichael coal mine in Australia. TIAA/Nuveen also invests in fossil fuel companies, including Chevron, Exxon, Enbridge, TotalEnergies (building the contested East African Crude Oil Pipeline).

“When TIAA invests teachers’ money in catastrophic fossil fuels and land grabs, they fundamentally undermine the work we do to prepare students for rich, fulfilling lives,” commented Caroline Levine, Cornell University professor, and TIAA-Divest! team member.

The complainants, with the support of TIAA-Divest!, call on TIAA to establish a moratorium on new fossil fuel investments, including both shares and bonds; to divest its existing fossil fuel investments by 2025 in line with a 1.5°C pathway; and to stop land grabs leading to deforestation and human rights harms, in order to make good on the specific commitments it has made as a PRI signatory.

If TIAA/Nuveen refuses to come into compliance, the complainants are asking PRI to expel Nuveen from the PRI initiative.

Read more about the complaint, complainants, and PRI.

Additional Voices of Support

Hana Heineken, Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law

“TIAA and the responsible investment community risk undermining their credibility if they fail to rapidly transition their investments away from fossil fuels and other high-emitting sectors. There is no more time for greenwashing, and they have a fiduciary duty to act with urgency.”

Amy Gray, Senior Climate Finance Strategist at Stand.earth and coordinator of the Climate Safe Pensions Network

“Our planet cannot afford any more stalling tactics from TIAA. Divestment from fossil fuel companies is an investment in our future. Frontline communities won’t wait for big banks, investors, and asset managers to appease fossil fuel corporations while our homes burn and flood, while our bodies are polluted, and while our children’s futures are destroyed for profit. TIAA/Nuveen must heed the writing on the wall, set the standard for the industry, and stop fossil fuel financing now.”

Coedie McAvoy — Wangan and Jagalingou Cultural Custodian

“We, as Wangan and Jagalingou Cultural Custodians, condemn TIAA for investing in Adani while Adani builds its Carmichael coal mine on our ancestral lands without our consent. TIAA’s funding of Adani makes it complicit in Adani’s ongoing violation of our human rights.”

Maria Luisa Mendonça, Network for Social Justice and Human Rights

“TIAA’s role in financial speculation on farmland promotes land grabbing and human rights violations against Indigenous people and small farmers. TIAA promotes the expansion of commodity plantations by agribusiness, which increases deforestation in the Brazilian Cerrado — the most biodiverse savanna in the world. TIAA’s clients and the general public need to denounce this destructive agribusiness system. We need to support land rights of local communities and ecological food production to deal with the global climate crisis.”

David M. Hughes, a Rutgers University professor and member of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Climate Justice Task Force

“In July, the 1.7-million-member American Federation of Teachers voted – with an overwhelming majority – to urge TIAA to divest from fossil fuels. We represent 300,000 TIAA clients: higher ed teachers, scholars, and academic professionals. We intend to leave a livable planet for our students, our children, and our grandchildren. If it is to do good in the world, TIAA must take our money – it is OUR money – out of Big Oil permanently.”

Eric Godoy, Ethics Professor, Illinois State University

“We know that fossil fuels are driving climate change, yet TIAA invests our money in these industries. This means our financial security is being generated at the expense of a livable climate. That’s not right.”

Pouné Saberi, MD, MPH, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Physician, Physicians for Social Responsibility — Pennsylvania

“My medical career and retirement account with TIAA began at the same time. While as doctors, we have been trying to protect the health of people, TIAA has continued its health-harming practices in the form of investments in fossil fuels. It is time for TIAA to align its mission of financial security for health professionals with the promotion of a clean and safe energy future for us. It is time for TIAA to divest from fossil fuels.”

The complaint is filed by the following 302 signatories.

Of these, 299 are confirmed TIAA participants, 2 are likely TIAA clients (*), 1 is a frontline activist fighting TIAA landgrabs in Brazil (**)  

	Bill McKibben	Schumann Distinguished Scholar	Middlebury College
	Judith Butler	Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School	Univ of California at Berkeley
	*Noam Chomsky	Professor	U of Arizona
	Robert Warren Howarth	David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology & Environmental Biology	Cornell University
	Michael Mann	Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of Earth System Science Center	Penn State University
	Nathan Glen Phillips	Professor, Department of Earth and Environment	Boston University
	*Amitav Ghosh	writer
	Rob Nixon	Barron Family Professor of Environment and Humanities	Princeton University
	Rachel Bezner Kerr	Professor	Cornell University
	M. Jahi Chappell	WK Kellogg Foundation Endowed Chair and Professor, Community Sustainability	Michigan State University
	Ruth Wilson Gilmore	Professor and Director	Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, CUNY
	**Maria Luisa Mendonça	Co-Director	Brazilian Network for Social Justice and Human Rights
	Edward Hall	Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy	Harvard University
	Melissa Lane	Class of 1943 Professor of Politics	Princeton University
	Paul Keoki Saint-Amour	Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities	University of Pennsylvania
	Martin Puchner	Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature	Harvard University
	Yael Niv	Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience	Princeton University
	Jonathan Kramnick	Maynard Mack Professor of English	Yale University
	Jonathan Culler	Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus	Cornell University
	Blakey Vermeule	Albert Guérard Professor of Literature	Stanford University
	Dipesh Chakrabarty	Professor	The University of Chicago
	Akeel Bilgrami	Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy	Columbia University
	Christopher Kennedy	William H. Colvin Professor of Linguistics	University of Chicago
	Helena Maria Viramontes	Distinguished Professor of Arts and Science in English	Cornell University
	Susan Sugarman	Professor of Psychology	Princeton University
	Sheldon Pollock	Arvind Raghunathan Professor Emeritus of South Asian Studies	Columbia University
	Karen Emmerich	Associate Professor of Comparative Literature	Princeton University
	Eric Hayot	Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies	Penn State
	Pedro Meira Monteiro	Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese	Princeton University
	Irene Small	Assoc. Professor	Princeton University
	Susan Stewart	Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities	Princeton University
	Samuel Moyn	Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History	Yale University
	Pouné Saberi	Occupational and Environmental Medicine Physician	formerly of Hospital of U of Pennsylvania
	Ruha Benjamin	Professor of African American Studies	Princeton University
	Bret Gustafson	Professor of Anthropology	Washington University in St Louis
	Kenneth Hammond	Staff Research Physicist	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
	Haun Saussy	University Professor	University of Chicago
	Anthony Grafton	Professor of History	Princeton University
	Jordan Alexander Stein	Professor of English and Comparative Literature	Fordham University
	Elizabeth Freeman	Professor of English	University of California, Davis
	Priya Joshi	Professor, English	Temple University
	Nathaniel Farrell	Lecturer	Washington University in St. Louis
	Sidney Chalhoub	Professor of History and of African and African American Studies	Harvard University
	Molly Anderson	William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Food Studies	Middlebury College
	David Warren	Lecturer	Washington University in St. Louis
	Shefali Chandra	Associate Professor	Washington University in St. Louis
	Mark Beissinger	Professor	Princeton University
	Elliott Lieb	Professor emeritus	Princeton university
	Barbara N. Nagel	Associate Professor of German	Princeton University
	Nicole Legnani	Assistant professor in Spanish and Portuguese	Princeton University
	Susana Draper	Associate Professor	Princeton
	Jacqueline Goodman	Professor Emeritus of Sociology	State University of New York, Potsdam College
	Amanda Claybaugh	Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of English	Harvard University
	Siobhan Senier	Professor and Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies	University of New Hampshire
	Denis Hirschfeldt	Professor of Mathematics	University of Chicago
	Timothy Mitchell	Professor	Columbia University
	Heather Berg	Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	Washington University
	Samantha Christiansen	Associate Professor of History	University of Colorado
	Ulug Kuzuoglu	Assistant Professor	Washington University in St. Louis
	Zahid Chaudhary	Associate Professor	Princeton U
	Judith Weisenfeld	Professor of Religion	Princeton University
	M Jennifer Chandler	Director of Operations	Elders Climate Action
	Elaine Hadley	Professor English Language and Literature	University of Chicago
	Peter Levine	Professor	Tufts University
	Meredith Martin	Associate Professor, Department of English	Princeton University
	Bruce Robbins	Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities	Columbia University
	Joseph McLaughlin	Associate Professor, English, President, OU-AAUP	Ohio University
	Juliet Shields	Professor of English	University of Washington
	Craig J. Saper	Professor and Director of Language, Literacy, and Culture Doctoral Program	University of Maryland-Baltimore County
	Deanna Kreisel	Associate Professor of English	University of Mississippi
	Allen MacDuffie	Associate Professor, English Department	University of Texas at Austin
	Jennifer Hill	Associate Professor of English	University of Nevada, Reno
	Marianne Krasny	Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment	Cornell University
	Caroline Levine	David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of the Humanities	Cornell University
	Cristin Ellis	Associate Professor of English	University of Mississippi
	Nancy Jacobson	Retired faculty	Ithaca College
	Eve Aschheim	former Lecturer in Art	Princeton University
	Jessie Reeder	Associate Professor of English	Binghamton University
	Naomi Greyser	Associate Professor of American Studies, English and Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies	University of Iowa
	Meena Rani Khandelwal	Associate Professor of GWSS and Anthropology	University of Iowa
	Richard Menke	Professor of English	University of Georgia
	Rena Lederman	Professor of Anthropology	Princeton University
	Tyler Bradway	Associate Professor of English	SUNY Cortland
	Yali Amit	Professor	University of Chicago
	Charles Bazerman	Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Education Department	University of California Santa Barbara
	David Ludden	Professor of History NYU, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania	NYU
	Katarzyna Bartoszynska	Assistant Professor, Literatures in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	Ithaca College
	Coran Klaver	Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English	Syracuse University
	Leslie Wharton	Retired	retired
	Daniel A. Segal	The Jean M. Pitzer Professor of Anthropology and the Professor of History	Pitzer College
	Elisha Cohn	Associate Professor	Cornell University
	Rachel Ablow	Professor	University at Buffalo, SUNY
	Jennifer Spitzer	Associate Professor of Literatures in English	Ithaca College
	Alberto Bruzos Moro	University Lecturer / Director Spanish Language Program	Princeton University
	Neal Patwari	Professor	Independent
	Gloria & David Mog	Teacher	Sidwell Friends School
	Rachel Price	Associate Professor	Princeton University
	Paul Lachapelle	Professor, Department of Political Science	Montana State University
	Anne Berg	Assistant Professor of History	University of Pennsylvania
	Gage McWeeny	Professor of English	Williams College
	Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal	Ruth and Paul Idzik Collegiate Chair of Digital Scholarship; Assistant Professor of English and Film, Television, and Theatre	University of Notre Dame
	Justin Steinberg	Professor of Philosophy	CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
	Sara Warner	Director, LGBT Studies	Cornell University
	Scott Peters	Professor	Cornell University
	Hector M. Hoyos	Professor and Director, Iberian and Latin American Cultures Professor,	Stanford University
	David Palumbo-Liu	Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor	Stanford University
	Beulah Levine	retired teacher	Syracuse University
	Tanya Agathocleous	Professor	Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
	Brian Obach	Professor of Sociology	SUNY New Paltz
	Laura Morcone	Director of Technology	SUNY New Paltz
	Miles Wilklow-Marnell	Assistant Professorof Chemistry	SUNY New Paltz
	Daniel Lipson	Associate Professor	SUNY New Paltz
	Madeline Veitch	Associate Librarian	SUNY New Paltz
	Amy M. King	Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies	St. John’s University
	Melissa Yang Rock	Associate Professor	SUNY New Paltz
	Swati Birla	Lecturer, Department of Sociology	SUNY- New Paltz
	Chris Whitaker	Advisor	SUNY New Paltz
	Allen Meyer	Doctor	private practice
	Nancy Schniedewind	Professor Emerita	SUNY New Paltz
	Gregory Bynum	Associate Professor	SUNY New Paltz
	Stephen Pampinella	Associate Professor	SUNY New Paltz
	Lynn Tomlinson	Associate Professor, Electronic Media and Film	Towson University
	Anne Balant Campbell	Associate Professor	SUNY New Paltz
	Jill Galvan	Associate Professor	Ohio State
	Talia Schaffer	Professor of English	Graduate Center, CUNY and Queens College, CUNY
	Jessica Fisher	Associate Professor of English	Williams College
	Elizabeth Brotherton	Professor Emerita	SUNY New Paltz
	Douglas Hertzler	Senior Policy Analyst	ActionAid USA
	Heather Williams	Professor of Politics	Pomona College
	Nancy Neiman	Professor of Politics	Scripps College
	Dominic Boyer	Professor of Anthropology	Rice University
	Kenneth Pomeranz	University Professor in History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College	University of Chicago
	Will Barndt	Associate Professor of Politial Studies	Pitzer College
	Andrew Ross	Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU	NYU
	Nicholas Dirks	Professor of History in the Graduate School	University of California, Berkeley
	Aviva Orenstein	Karen Lake Buttrey and Donald W. Buttrey Professor of Law	Indiana University
	Cynthia Franklin	Professor of English	Univ. of Hawai’i
	James Engell	Professor of English	Harvard University
	Joyce Chaplin	James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History	Harvard University
	Susan Phillips	Director Robert Redford Conservamcy	Pitzer College
	Benjamin Kahan	Robert Penn Warren Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	Louisiana State University
	Megan Ferguson	Associate Professor	SUNY New Paltz
	Angela L Miller	Professor of Art History and Archeology	Washington University
	Nancy Romer	Professor Emerita	Brooklyn College, CUNY
	Barbara Winslow	Emerita Professor Brooklyn College CUNY	Brooklyn College
	Eileen Moran	Retiree	PSC-CUNY
	Dr. Carol Montgomery	Professor Emerita, LaGuardia Community College	City University of New York
	Rachel Youens	Assistant Adjunct Professor	The New School
	Joyce Solomon Moorman	Professor Emerita	Borough of Manhattan Community College
	Tina Wasserman	Senior Lecturer	Tufts University
	Mary Sawyer	Emeritus Professor, Dept Teaching & Learning	State Univ of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz
	Mark Goldberg	Associate Professor Emeritus	Hunter College – CUNY
	Lizette Colón	Lecturer /Counselor	Hostos CC/CUNY
	Adam Koranyi	distinguished professor, retired	Lehman College of  CUNY
	Fazia Aitel	Associate Professor	Claremont McKenna College
	Anthony Gronowicz	Adjunct Full Professor History and Political Science CUNY	Borough of Manhattan Community College
	Jedediah Brodie	Craighead Chair of Conservation	University of Montana
	Kathleen Dowley	Associate Professor and Chair Political Science	SUNY New Paltz
	Kate McCullough	Associate Professor of English and FGSS	Cornell University
	Pauline Turner Strong	Professor of Anthropology	University of Texas at Austin
	Kristine Newhall	Associate Professor	SUNY Cortland
	Amanda Lagji	Assistant Professor of English and World Literature	Pitzer College
	Juliana Hu Pegues	Associate Professor of Literatures in English	Cornell University
	Virginia Casper Ph.D	Graduate Faculty Emerita	Bank Street College of Education
	Rachel Greenwald Smith	Professor of English	Saint Louis University
	Jenny Mann	Associate Professor of English and the Gallatin School	NYU
	Barbara W Brandom, MD	Retired Professor of Anesthesiology	University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
	Pamela Gilbert	Albert Brick Professor of English	University of Florida
	Nick Admussen	Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture	Cornell University
	Rachel Theilheimer	Professor Emerita	Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY
	Nancy Carla Poole	Executive Director	Atwater Park Center
	Dr. Faith Lamb-Parker	Retired professor, Mailman School of Public Health	Columbia University
	Ralph Ghoche	Assistant Professor	Barnard College
	Adrien Horton	National Student Organizing Manager	University of Colorado Boulder
	Molly Ornati	Outreach coordinator	TIAA-Divest
	Nancy Martin	retired teacher	Montessori Center
	Karen Weiss	Graduate Faculty	Bank Street College of Education
	Janet Mroczek	Associate Professor, Retired	Chicago City Colleges
	Anne DeVries	AST employee	University of Nebraska at Linclon.
	Robin D. G. Kelley	Distinguished Professor and the Gary B Nash Endowed Chair in US History	UCLA
	Janet Pelley	Science writer, retired	self-employed
	David L Freedman	Professor	Clemson University
	Nancy Gropper	retired faculty	Bank Street Graduate School ofcEducation
	Irisita Azary, Ph. D	retired professor	California State University, Long Beach
	Michele Dominy	Profesor of Anthropology & Research Profesor	Bard College
	Elizabeth Poreba	retired teacher	NA
	Eva-Maria Swidler	Faculty	Curtis Institute of Music
	Marjorie Brickley	Faculty/Advisor	Bank Street College of Education
	Andrea Frank	Associate Professor	SUNY New Paltz
	Marian Howard	Professor	Bank Street Colllege
	MIchael Dine	Retired Professor of Physics	University of California at Santa Cruz
	Luisa Costa	Retired Faculty	Bank Street College of Education
	Kim Cohen	Employee Relations	SUNY New Paltz
	Eric Godoy	Assistant Prof of Philosophy	Illinois State University
	Dawn McCaw	Senior Career Specialist	State University of New York at New Paltz
	Robert Schultz	Retired professor of Environmental Ethics, a Quaker	University of Washington, Bothell
	Jonathan Silin	Retired Faculty	Bank Street College of Education
	Tammy Gray	Travel Coordinator	SUNY New Paltz
	Valerie McAllister	Academic Program Specialist	SUNY New Paltz
	Leonard Swidler	Professor of Theology	Temple University
	Heather Davis	Assistant Professor of Culture and Media	The New School
	Nelly Tournaki	Professor	CUNY
	Alison Mears	Associate Professor of Architecture	The New School
	Luam Melake	Senior Researcher	The New School, Parsons School of Design
	Matthew Friday	Professor	SUNY New Paltz
	Allison Franzese	Associate Professor	Hostos Community College
	David McDermott Hughes	Professor	Rutgers University
	Lynn Voskuil	Associate Professor	University of Houston
	Toby R. Benis	Professor and Department Chair, English	Saint Louis University
	Travis Rector	Professor	University of Alaska Anchorage
	Catherine Murphy	Staff and Faculty	The New School
	Marion Phyllis Cunningham	Retired	CUNY
	Elizabeth Grob	retired educator	Bank Street College
	Benjamin Gompertz	Assistant Professor	University of Birmingham, UK
	Lorraine Cohen	Professor of Sociology -Retired	LaGuardia Community College
	Dr. Jake Turner	Research Associate	Cornell University
	Molly Wallace	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Conflict Resolution	Portland State University
	Lisa Phillips	Associate Professor, Digital Media and Journalism	SUNY New Paltz
	Paul Lynch	Georgia K. Johnston Professor of English	Saint Louis University
	Joshua Walawender	Staff Astronomer	W. M. Keck Observatory
	David Paradis	Sr. Instructor	University of Colorado
	Anna Berg		CUNY
	Ruth Evans	Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor of English	Saint Louis University
	Emily Yeh	Professor	University of Colorado Boulder
	Diana Selig	Associate Professor of History	Claremont McKenna College
	Callie Clontz	graduate student	University of Utah
	Susan Van Dolsen		None
	Mary Mullen	Associate Professor	Villanova
	Phaedra C. Pezzullo	Associate Professor	University of Colorado Boulder
	Emily Steinlight	Associate Professor of English	University of Pennsylvania
	Phyllis Weliver	Professor of English	Saint Louis University
	Brooke Holmes	Susan Dod Brown Professor of Classics	Princeton University
	Donna M. Goldstein	Professor of Anthropology	University of Colorado Boulder
	Mary Holland	Professor of English	SUNY New Paltz
	Wendy Fleischer	Consultant	Consultant
	Laura A. Harris	Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies	Pitzer College
	Ted Powers	Associate Professor	University of Iowa
	Laura R. Graham	Professor of Anthropology; President-elect, Society for the Anthropology of Lowland S. America	University of Iowa
	Jennifer Ruth	Professor	Portland State University
	Cori McKenzie	Assistant Professor, Adolescence English Education	SUNY Cortland
	Adam Mastropaolo	Instructional Support Technician	SUNY New Paltz
	Jan Clausen	Writer and Writing Teacher	New York University
	Anne Heaney	Retiree	Bank Street Collage
	Bassam Frangieh	Professor of Arabic	Claremont McKenna College
	Matt Lessig	Professor	SUNY Cortland
	Joseph Nevins	Professor of Geography	Vassar College
	Henry Reichman	Professor Emeritus of History	California State University, East Bay
	Craig Slatin	Professor Emeritus	University of Massachusetts Lowell
	Emily Fridlund	Assistant Professor, Department of Literatures in English	Cornell University
	Joe Bryan	Associate Professor, Geography	University of Colorado, Boulder
	Colleen Reid	Assistant Professor	University of Colorado Boulder
	Maura McLaughlin	Professor	West Virginia University
	Miguel Carter	Director	DEMOS – Centro para la Democracia, la Creatividad y la Inclusión Social
	Thomas Angotti	Professor Emeritus	Hunter College, CUNY
	Mary Taylor	Assistant Director	City University of New York
	Marc Edelman	Professor of Anthropology	Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
	Lee Kennedy-Shaffer	Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics	Vassar College
	Elizabeth Henderson	farmer/writer	Peacework CSA
	Rachel Youens	Assistant Adjunct Professor	Parsons School of Design, The New School
	Lisa Sternlieb	Associate Professor	Penn State University
	Ujju Aggarwal	Assistant Professor	The New School
	Linda Farthing	Independent scholar	Independent
	Lynne Einbender	Faculty	Bank Street Colly
	Carol Montgomery	Professor Emerita	LaGuardia Community College
	Farhana Sultana	Professor	Syracuse University
	Ujju Aggarwal	Assistant Professor	The New School
	Sigmund Shen	Professor of English	LaGuardia Community College / CUNY
	Kiyoko Heineken	Bibliographer	Princeton University
	Wendy Wolford	Polson Professor of Global Development	Cornell University
	Heather Ferguson	Associate Professor of History	Claremont McKenna College
	Philip McMichael	emeritus professor	Cornell U
	Tad Mutersbaugh	Professor	University of Kentucky
	Ian Bourg	Associate Professor	Princeton University
	Buz Barstow	Assistant Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering	Cornell University
	Soyoung Park	Program Director	Bank Street College of Education
	Mary Stevens	Lecturer, Coordinator	SUNY New Paltz
	Anne C Bellows	Professor Dr.	Syracuse University
	Jon Sutter	Independant Artist	none
	Corey K. Creekmur	Associate Professor	University of Iowa
	Teresa Mangum	Professor	University of Iowa
	Alessandro Angelini	Assistant Professor of Anthropology	Johns Hopkins University
	Rebecca Tarlau	Associate Professor of Education	Pennsylvania State University
	Naveeda Khan	Associate Professor	Johns Hopkins University
	Colby Harvish	Residence Life Assignments Coordinator	SUNY New Paltz
	Danica Savonick	Assistant Professor	SUNY Cortland
	Prasannan Parthasarathi	Professor of South Asian History	Boston College
	Ling Zhang	Associate Professor of History	Boston College
	Maria de los Angeles Picone	Assistant Professor of History	Boston College
	Marina McCoy	Professor of Philosophy	Boston College
	Rhonda Frederick	Associate Professor, English and African & African Diaspora Studies	Boston College
	Marilynn S Johnson	Professor of History	Boston College
	Virginia Reinburg	Professor of History	Boston College
	Juliet Schor	Professor of Sociology	Boston College
	Charles Derber	Professor	Boston College
	Robin Fleming	Professor	Boston College
	Eric Weiskott	Professor of English	Boston College
	Leonel Lima Ponce	Acting Academic Director, MS in Sustainable Environmental Systems / Visiting Assistant Professor	Pratt Institute
	M. Brinton Lykes	Professor, Psychology; Co-director, Center for Human Rights & International Justice	Boston College
	Hilary Palevsky	Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences	Boston College
	Lynne Anderson	Director, English Language Learning	Boston College
	Emrah Altindis	Assistant Professor	Boston College
	Minna Immerman	Emeritus Faculty	Bank Street College of Education

The following organizations have committed their support to this complaint:

SUNY New Paltz Environmental Task Force

The Phoenix Group

Extinction Rebellion San Francisco Bay Area

Family Farm Defenders

Friends of the Earth United States

Market Forces