Climate Change

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Pairis's Climate Science Alliance finalist for $100K conservation prize

Five teams from across North America, including Amber Pairis' Climate Science Alliance, have been selected as finalists for the Connectivity Challenge, a $100,000 incentive prize launched by the CSU Salazar Center for North American Conservation late last year. One team will be chosen as the winner following a virtual pitch event on September 16 during the Center’s second annual symposium.
July 21, 2020
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Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz

2020 Fellow
Luis Alexis Rodríguez Cruz is an interdisciplinary social scientist and writer based in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico. His participatory and applied work explores the social dimensions of food systems, in relation to climate adaptation and public health outcomes, in the context of disasters and natural hazards.
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Idalmis Vaquero

2020 Fellow
Idalmis is a third-year law student at UCLA School of Law, where she is enrolled in the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. She began advocating on environmental justice issues in her community of East Los Angeles...
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Gillian Lui

2020 Fellow
Gillian is a trained environmental scientist committed to advancing interdisciplinary climate solutions. She’s focused now on elevating environmental and social sustainability as business bottom lines.
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Demi Espinoza

2020 Fellow
Demi Espinoza (she/they) is the daughter of working class Mexican immigrants and the youngest of ten siblings raised in Riverside, California. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at California State University San Bernardino and a...
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Camila Bustos

2020 Fellow
Camila Bustos is an Assistant Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Prior to joining Pace, Professor Bustos was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Trinity College and a Clinical Supervisor in human...
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Raven Graf

2020 Fellow
Previously, Raven served Senator Sheldon Whitehouse as a legislative correspondent for climate and energy. They earned their Masters of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. They are interested in the challenges and...
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Integrating oceans into climate policy: Any green new deal needs a splash of blue

Here, we articulate the ecological, social and economic potential of investing in integrated terrestrial‐ocean climate solutions and identify the specific steps needed to promote more comprehensive and integrated climate policies that leverage contemporary ocean science.
June 9, 2020
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Golden serving as online faculty member for The Polaris Project

The Polaris Project tackles one of humanity’s greatest challenges – global climate change – in one of Earth’s most remote and vulnerable environments: the Arctic. Fellow Nigel Golden is a faculty member working online with students during the coronavirus this year. Learn more
April 22, 2020