Tag: Youth engagement

Laura is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Health Sciences at UC Berkeley where she studies how biomarkers of mitochondrial dysfunction can shed light on the underpinnings between exposure to social and environmental stressors on atopic disease among children in frontline environmental justice communities.

Laila Gad, a summer intern for the Agents of Change program, and Neeshad Shafi, a climate change advocate and the co-founder of the Arab Youth Climate Movement Qatar, discuss climate change in the Arab world and the harms of Western media's reporting on climate change and energy in the Middle East.

Fellows Dr. Valerisa Joe-Gaddy and Dr. Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos join the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast to discuss what it means to be mothers and health researchers.

In our year-in-review show we speak with assistant editor María Paula Rubiano A. about her path to environmental reporting, and fellows Alexa White and Dr. Robbie Parks recap their experience at COP27 in Egypt.

El activismo ambiental juvenil nos ha hecho avanzar de muchas maneras, pero para maximizar este impacto necesitamos coaliciones que aprendan del pasado de manera que puedan prepararse para el futuro.

From an early age, many people don't feel welcome in outdoor spaces or inspired to pursue environmental science careers. That needs to change.

Youth environmental activism has moved us forward in many ways—but to maximize this impact we need coalitions that learn from the past in order to prepare for the future.

Tatiana (Tots) Height, Ed.D. received a doctorate in the Agricultural and Extension Education from NC State University.

OreOluwa Badaki is a PhD Candidate in in the Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.