Environmental & Social Justice

Fellow

Ben Regas

2026 Fellow
Ben is an aspiring litigator and policy advocate interested in intersectional racial, environmental, and economic justice work. Ben is particularly interested in expanding holistic legal services models to include environmental justice principles and concerns and the unique roles and responsibilities of state and local governments in pursuing environmental justice enforcement and affirmative litigation.
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Destiny Treloar

2026 Fellow
Destiny Dynella Treloar is a proud first-generation Nicaragüense woman from Miami. She is fiercely committed to advocating for the well-being of Latine communities, addressing the structural drivers of nutritional insecurity, and developing meaningful solutions to modulate environmental health disparities in her home communities. Destiny is a PhD candidate at the Yale School of Environment.
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Charlston Britton

2026 Fellow
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.
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Jackson Newman

2026 Fellow
Jackson is a master’s in environmental management candidate specializing in ecosystem conservation and management at the Yale School of the Environment. Jackson is particularly interested in private lands conservation, prairie plants, commodity markets, land ownership, ecological restoration, and lots more.
Fellow Story

Lewis on theology of food and labor in the face of climate change

In this article for U.S. Catholic Magazine, Michelle describes the injustice in our current food labor system, tells her own story about how growing food helped her personal liberation, and proposes a liberatory theology of food that would help everyone gain access to grow their own food in safety.
May 27, 2026
Foundation News

Made to Last, Built to Harm: Reckoning and reimagining our relationship with plastic

The Switzer Foundation was proud to present a collaborative panel with the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice focused on the impact of plastics from cradle to grave. Timnit Kefela moderated this conversation with emerging leaders in...
May 21, 2026
Fellow Story

Switzer Fellows speak at 2026 New Horizons in Conservation Conference

Bogomolni, Espinoza, Franco and Prado will speak at the conference which explores “urgent issues in the environmental sector, with a focus on perspectives in environmental institutions, food insecurity and sovereignty, climate and energy, outdoor experiences, future leadership in the environmental movement, and more.”
April 23, 2026
Fellow Story

UCLA Luskin Institute selects Kirk as 2026 Activist-in-Residence

Chelsea Kirk has been named a 2026 UCLA Activist-in-Residence, a program which “supports artists, community organizers, and movement leaders as they undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change.” For her...
February 18, 2026
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Pendleton publishes a front lines look at peer-to-peer sharing of Indigenous knowledge and academic science

The Ocean Knowledge Action Network community created a bespoke “workshop focused on the sharing of Indigenous knowledge and academic science by Indigenous academics,” and described the success of the approach in a December 2025 paper in ICES Journal of Marine Science.
February 18, 2026
Fellow Story

Candice Youngblood: one of EarthJustice’s ‘Lawyers Giving us Hope’

Candice Youngblood was featured as one of six Earthjustice attorneys sharing their motivations to keep fighting for the planet and its people. The following is an excerpt from the original story here. “When Earthjustice attorney Candice...
February 18, 2026