Environmental & Social Justice

As an organizer and researcher, Hasmik is passionate about supporting food sovereignty movements in California and Armenia. She approaches this work with lenses from both the natural sciences and feminist studies.

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...

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...

Summer Sullivan is a PhD candidate in environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Broadly, her work examines how increasingly digital landscapes affect workers and ecologies. She is also an avid organizer with the graduate student workers union (UAW 4811), member of her department’s Diversity Committee, teaching assistant, undergraduate mentor, and engaged scholar.

Temesgen Gebreyesus is a first-generation college student from South Los Angeles, California. While at UCLA, he was compelled to volunteer for the Ethiopian-Democratic Club of Los Angeles, and advocated for the closure of urban oil-drills...

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...

Landry Guillen is a first-generation graduate student and Master of Forestry candidate at Yale School of the Environment. Her interests exist at the nexus of urban and community forestry, regenerative food systems, and environmental justice...

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.

Jazz Henry is pursuing a Masters in Urban Planning at UCLA with a concentration in sustainability and design/development. He previously attended Occidental College where he was a four-year member of the Men's Soccer team and majored in...