Environmental & Social Justice

Melisa Walk is an environmental justice advocate, researcher, and community organizer from Ventura County with deep roots in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Her work focuses on the intersections of plastic pollution, climate justice, and community-led planning. Grounded in both policy and grassroots organizing, she is committed to building healthier, more equitable communities through public engagement, research, and movement building.

Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie is third year student at Yale Law School, where he is a student director of the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic, and was a co-president of the Yale Environmental Law Association and co-chair for the 2026 New Directions in Environmental Law Conference. Justin is interested in working at the intersection of environmental and Tribal issues, and particularly on questions that touch on land use and the clean energy transition.

Nicolás is a fire ecologist and fire practitioner who studies the reintroduction of Indigenous cultural burning in two of California’s ecologically and culturally important ecosystems: tule wetlands and oak woodlands. His applied research is driven by a desire to support Indigenous-led restoration and advance tribal sovereignty while broadly addressing the ecological impacts and ongoing history of settler colonialism.

Jasmine Lamb is a member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point and a current PhD Candidate in Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Maine. Jasmine has worked in environmental justice for Wabanaki Tribal Nations and founded the Sipayik Resilience Committee to support citizen-led tribal resilience initiatives, including increasing access to energy efficiency and renewable energy technology and other climate resilience actions.

Maddie Taylor is a disabled researcher studying climate change impacts on disabled communities, committed to producing work that centers disabled people as experts whose knowledge should inform climate adaptation.

Thomas Hyo-min King is an environmental designer and urbanist from rural Nova Scotia, Canada. His work focuses on strategies for delivering building rehabilitations and energy infrastructure that improve extant living conditions while reinforcing energetic and economic democracy among disinvested building populations.

Jenna is a Doctor of Dental Medicine student and environmental advocate based in Boston. She is passionate about constructing sustainable health care systems that expand access to care while reducing the environmental pollution associated with treatment. She aspires to become a dentist and policymaker that tackles health inequities and environmental degradation simultaneously.

Marina Dewinara Luccioni is a Corsican-Indonesian ecologist and experimental film-maker studying human and environmental health. Her PhD dissertation focuses on using chemical and molecular ecology in support of community-based and Indigenous ecological governance in Corsica, Hawai’i and California.

Charlston Britton is an architect, and RISD Presidential Fellow from New Orleans whose work is deeply shaped by the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Pursuing a Master of Design in Adaptive Reuse with a concentration in Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies, his work and research explore the intersection of craft and resilience through spatial interventions.