Antoine Thompson

Executive Director

Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition (GWRCCC)

Antoine M. Thompson is a nationally recognized leader for environmental justice, green business, housing, diversity, and urban policy. He earned dual bachelors’ degrees in History and African & Afro-American Studies from SUNY Brockport and is the Executive Director of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition (GWRCC), a public-private partnership that promotes the use of clean, American transportation fuels for homeland security, improved air quality, environment justice, diversity, and inclusion.

Antoine is the former Executive Director of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) the oldest organization of African American real estate professionals in the United States. He led efforts to increase advocacy on Capitol Hill on closing the racial wealth gap through increasing the rate of Black homeownership. Antoine was elected to the New York State Senate in 2006 and 2008 and served as the Senate Deputy Majority Whip and the first African American to Chair the Senate Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation and Co-Chair of the Senate Minority and Woman Business Enterprise Task Force.