Vien Truong is the award-winning national director of the nonprofit Green For All, whose aim is to build an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Truong is one of the nation’s foremost experts on creating solutions for poverty and pollution in government. “I grew in the ‘toxic triangle,’ a heavily polluted region of northern California where life expectancy is 12 years less than in nearby affluent communities, so I literally live and breathe this issue.”