Environmental & Social Justice

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.

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.

Cindy Nguyen is a proud first-generation, Vietnamese-American dedicated to building a more healthy, just, and equitable world for all. Motivated by her experiences observing environmental-health burdens in Vietnamese nail salons, Cindy hopes to use legal tools to both confront the systems driving environmental-health inequities and empower historically overburdened communities to build their own versions of a just future.

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.

Eric Medina studies how coastal wetland restoration can improve habitat, protect urban spaces, and increase access to green space. He is excited about the opportunities climate adaptation presents for envisioning futures that prioritize both the ecological systems California’s cities rely on and the daily quality of life for people.

Mica Caine is the co-founder of Helix, a circular fashion marketplace focused on keeping clothing, care, and stories in motion within local communities. A Central Ohio native, Mica’s work is deeply rooted in place and relationships, spanning circular economy, community-led climate resilience, and decentralized energy systems.

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.