Environmental Education

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Growing green leaders and conservation collaborations from Colombia to Boston

Dave Kramer’s career began as an educator in Colombia in the late 90’s, and he fell in love with the country in the process. What started as a short-term teaching position in Cali, Colombia has turned into a lifelong passion for the country...
August 28, 2025
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Paul receives Emerging Leaders Fund award

Rooted Futures Lab was selected for this four-year $300,000 grant for their work to address the systemic neglect and exclusion of environmental justice in technology development and application.
June 30, 2025
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Ki’Amber Thompson

2025 Fellow
Ki’Amber Thompson is an abolitionist environmental justice educator, healing justice practitioner, and multimedia artist. They are the Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Charles Roundtree Bloom Project. Their work bridges abolition, decolonial, and environmental justice movements toward imagining and creating more socially and environmentally just and sustainable worlds.
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Maria Lopez Vazquez

2025 Fellow
Maria Lopez Vazquez is a multicultural landscape designer from the border region of Tijuana-San Diego (MX-US). She has a Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley. By pursuing her Master's in Landscape Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, she hopes to inform her landscape design practice with sustainable efforts as an artist and maker.
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Walton returns to native St. Croix to support environmental changemakers

‘I firmly believe that to protect the future of our environment, we must teach our children to love the Earth.’
December 17, 2024
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Sebastian Moreno: Understanding Barriers, Bringing People to the Natural World

How does inclusivity enhance bird conservation efforts?
December 17, 2024
Leadership Grant Grant

Resilient Roots: Youth Climate Justice Leadership

The Resilient Roots Project lifts up the voices and leadership of middle and high school age youth in taking climate action through digital storytelling and media arts in order to strengthen climate resiliency in communities that stand to...
November 26, 2024
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Sanjana Paul

2024 Fellow
Sanjana is an engineer, environmental justice researcher, and systems thinker working at the intersection of infrastructure, climate, and technology. She is a PhD student at MIT, where her research focuses on renewable energy, energy justice, and the electric grid. She is the co-founder of Rooted Futures Lab, a research and action collective advancing environmental justice in technology, and Earth Hacks, a nonprofit harnessing hackathons as a form of climate action. Her work has ranged from atmospheric science software engineering at NASA to passing decarbonization policy at the local level. She holds a BS in electrical engineering and physics, and a Master’s in City Planning from MIT.
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Selena Rowan

2024 Fellow
Selena combines data analysis with a commitment to community health, ecological restoration, and environmental stewardship to develop innovative solutions for healthy forests in California.
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Harris distinguishes between teaching for understanding versus knowing climate change

Dylan Harris published an article distinguishing between ‘understanding’ and ‘knowing’ climate change, and outlining ways to teach that integrate the two. He makes the distinction as: “the former referring to how students can learn about...
November 27, 2023