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's studies are concentrated in sustainability and design/development. He has worked on issues such as extreme heat, air quality, community engagement and schoolyard greening.
Alejandra is a transnational emerging scholar cross-pollinating Indigenous ways of knowing, agroecology, and ecological economics to conserve stingless honeybees.
Sydney is a researcher and community organizer based in Eastern Connecticut. Her work focuses on the intersection of farmer viability, food access and environmental sustainability.
Natalie explores policies related to natural climate solutions, adaptation, the Arctic, the politics of renewable energy siting, and the role that nonprofits play in the just energy transition.
Alexii (Amah Mutsun Tribal Band) uses ethnographic research to examine opportunities for tribal land access and co-management through collaborative stewardship in central coastal California.
Chelsea is driven by the belief that we cannot solve our climate crisis by exacerbating our housing crisis. Her work empowers tenants in building decarbonization efforts, ensuring they benefit from climate initiatives.
Several Switzer Fellows are presenting at the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting taking place in Honolulu Hawai’i from April 16-20, 2024. Fellows’ presentations are on an array of diverse topics: climate...
Camila Bustos worked with the International Refugee Assistance Project and nine other nonprofit organizations who engage in climate action and migrant and refugee advocacy to create a “legal action agenda that sets concrete steps to ensure...