James has also led and organized teams to pass important environmental and economic policy legislation across several cities, states, and countries.

• Authored the Official Land Acknowledgement for the City of Berkeley, California, working with the Ohlone Tribe to publish a robust history of the ecocide by ranching that decimates the native people's and the flora they lived by in Northern California (2023)

• Contributed to the Berkeley Mayor's 10-Year Affordable Housing Plan, with a focus on sustainable and equitable development

• Advised with the implementation of Berkeley's environmental policies, including a single-use disposable phase-out and procurement of plant-powered foods for the city's institutions

• Trained the organizers and laid the groundwork for the team that passed the first universal basic income policy in the world in Taiwan, a payment to 23 million residents to alleviate economic insecurity (see UBI Taiwan)

• Organized to pass policies affirming the mental health benefits of mushrooms in Somerville, Cambridge, Northampton, Easthampton, Amherst, Salem, Provincetown, Medford, Portland (Maine), and Berkeley (California) to normalize their use for therapies and neurological disease treatment

• Authored and organized to pilot policy changes in Boston, including the embrace of sustainable hempcrete building alternatives and the phase-out of rodent poison that kill our birds and pets

• Built a coalition to author a framework to protect Boston's tree canopy with a community green trust and tree maintenance fund, a policy that nationally renowned urban forest expert Laurence D. Wiseman described as "brilliant."