Environmental Policy & Law

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Natasha Frazier

2024 Fellow
Natasha Frazier is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe pursuing a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University with a focus on development and environmental policy. Natasha is a 2024 Udall intern in...
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Emily Li

2024 Fellow
Emily Li is a second-year Master of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning student at Tufts University studying community wealth building in immigrant & BIPOC communities through economic and climate justice. She is currently a Rappaport...
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Sanjana Paul

2024 Fellow
Sanjana Paul is an engineer, environmental educator, and graduate student in Environmental Policy and Planning at MIT, where her research focuses on process innovation and technical/policy boundaries of renewable energy systems and the...
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Nicole Wong

2024 Fellow
Nicole explores the intersection of affordable housing and climate equity, including building energy retrofit strategies that can reduce energy burden, prevent displacement, and target climate investments to low-income communities of color.
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Ataya Cesspooch

2024 Fellow
Ataya is an enrolled citizen of the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes and a descendant of the northern Ute Tribe from the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in northeastern Utah. Her dissertation work examines the complex and contradictory...
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Natalie Baillargeon

2024 Fellow
Natalie Baillargeon received a BA in Environmental Science & Policy from Smith College, where she studied how ecological systems are influenced by land use and climate change. She works as a Policy Analyst at Woodwell Climate Research...
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Kathryn Rodgers

2024 Fellow
Kathryn Rodgers is a PhD candidate at Boston University School of Public Health, where she is researching environmental causes of Mesoamerican nephropathy. She is also a trainee in the Boston University Graduate Program in Urban...
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From Streets to Statutes: UConn Law Earth Day Conference features Bustos and Pizarro

“Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, and we have the tools we have to address the challenge, including litigation, storytelling, and organizing,” Bustos said. “Law schools have an important role, because the law can be a barrier or a leverage point to help movements. There are opportunities and challenges ahead.”
May 13, 2024
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Grumet applauds Biden Administration’s Guidance on Energy Communities Tax Credit

“Including ports in this bonus tax credit will revitalize hard working communities that have long been engines of economic growth,” Grumet said. “The Administration’s action is yet another example of the economic opportunities created by the clean energy transition.”
April 17, 2024
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Switzer Fellows present at 2024 AAG conference

Several Switzer Fellows are presenting at the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting taking place in Honolulu Hawai’i from April 16-20, 2024. Fellows’ presentations are on an array of diverse topics: climate...
April 17, 2024