Environmental & Social Justice

Sena Wazer is a community organizer and advocate from Connecticut. Her work centers around community organizing as a mechanism for creating policy change, particularly at the state level.

Based in rural Northern California and informed by his Choctaw heritage, Logan White works with tribal communities at the nexus of environmental stewardship and behavioral health to address the intergenerational trauma colonialism has left in its wake. He calls this approach “restoration therapy,” a practice that treats ecological restoration as both practical healing for the land and a living metaphor for strengthening individual and community wellness.

Malika Kounkourou serves as a managing editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review and is a research assistant at the Harvard Environmental and Energy Law Program. Her interests lie at the intersection of alternative dispute resolution systems, corporate accountability, and climate justice, with a focus on extractive industry governance.

Maya Caine is a slow fashion entrepreneur focused on designing life-affirming systems that prioritize longevity, circularity, and justice. With a background in corporate strategy and systems thinking, she has spent the past seven years building slow and circular fashion solutions that challenge the industry’s dependence on overproduction and waste.

Sarah Sarfaty Epstein is interested in landscape-scale climate resilience decision making in California’s agricultural sector, particularly at the agriculture-energy-water nexus. Her current research uses geospatial analysis to create decision support tools at the groundwater basin level. Born and raised in the East Bay, she is proud to call California home.

Lupe Franco explores how unhoused individuals experience and navigate extreme weather conditions, with a focus on the systemic barriers that exacerbate their vulnerability. Her work sits at the intersection of climate justice, environmental justice, and homelessness.

A nutritionist by training, Cynthia Wilson (Diné) centers her research on interdisciplinary approaches to Indigenous environmental health, kinship mobility, and Diné foodways. Since 2016, she co-led community-based traditional foods program and ancestral lands advocacy at Bears Ears National Monument.

Hasibe Caballero-Gómez is an environmental health scientist and community advocate. Driven by her lived experiences and a vision of equity, she combines research with grassroots engagement to create meaningful, inclusive solutions for environmental challenges.