Climate Change

Fellow Story

Lupe Franco: how are municipalities in California tackling climate change and homelessness?

Lupe Franco recently published her first solo-authored paper, Wicked Problems: How Are Municipalities in California Tackling Climate Change and Homelessness? , in the International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. “This work is the...
July 15, 2026
Fellow Story

Caines nominated for Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award

As co-founders of Helix, Maya and Mica Caine are strategists whose fashion company reimagines clothing as a shared civic resource and advances regenerative, place-based systems of stewardship and circularity.
July 15, 2026
Fellow Story

Sonnenfeld studies climate change politics throughout the Obama administrations

“President Barack Obama's two terms in office offer a compelling case study in the evolving political discourse on climate change in the United States.”
July 15, 2026
Fellow Story

UC Berkeley appoints Morello-Frosch as inaugural associate provost for energy, climate, and environment

“The public health expert and Berkeley professor will unite scholars across campus to address crucial environmental challenges.”
June 25, 2026
Fellow Story

Paul publishes data center negotiation simulation

Sanjana Paul has released a new simulation that allows participants to engage in multi-party negotiations around a proposed data-center. Using eight different roles, participants explore the implications of energy, water, community benefits...
June 25, 2026
Fellow

Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie

2026 Fellow
Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie is third year student at Yale Law School, where he is a student director of the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic, and was a co-president of the Yale Environmental Law Association and co-chair for the 2026 New Directions in Environmental Law Conference. Justin is interested in working at the intersection of environmental and Tribal issues, and particularly on questions that touch on land use and the clean energy transition.
Fellow

Thomas King

2026 Fellow
Thomas Hyo-min King is an environmental designer and urbanist from rural Nova Scotia, Canada. His work focuses on strategies for delivering building rehabilitations and energy infrastructure that improve extant living conditions while reinforcing energetic and economic democracy among disinvested building populations.
Fellow

Leslie Spencer

2026 Fellow
Leslie is an ecologist, educator, and naturalist studying wild pollinators in Vermont. Before moving to Vermont, Leslie studied wild pollinators in Costa Rican forests and coffee farms, Minnesota prairies, and the urban wilds of Boston. She is also a Vermont Master Naturalist and serves on the Vermont Pollinator Working Group steering committee.
Fellow

Jasmine Lamb

2026 Fellow
Jasmine Lamb is a member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point and a current PhD Candidate in Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Maine. Jasmine has worked in environmental justice for Wabanaki Tribal Nations and founded the Sipayik Resilience Committee to support citizen-led tribal resilience initiatives, including increasing access to energy efficiency and renewable energy technology and other climate resilience actions.
Fellow

Maddie Taylor

2026 Fellow
Maddie Taylor is a disabled researcher studying climate change impacts on disabled communities, committed to producing work that centers disabled people as experts whose knowledge should inform climate adaptation.