Taken next to the oak tree (Oakland’s namesake) planted in 1917 outside of Oakland’s City Hall.
I’m going into my third year at Gallatin with a concentration in Environmental Studies and Human Rights, particularly with an interest in Indigenous land rights and environmental practices, food justice and climate change adaptation.
This summer, I am a Gallatin Global Fellow in Urban Practice in Oakland, California with Rooted in Resilience, an environmental justice and climate resilience organization! In my work with them, I will be developing their communications strategy for existing and new initiatives, as well as conducting research on environmental communications and developing a training program around environmental and community-based organization communications for externs and other organizations.
At Gallatin, I work as a research assistant on various projects, and have recently worked helping to organize an academic event on the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. I have recently completed an internship with the Children’s Radio Foundation, which is an organization that partners with community radio stations across 6 different countries in Africa and trains youth reporters to report on issues that are important in their communities. In the future, I want to continue my studies in the field of environmental justice and human rights, and work to involve and learn from communities when it comes to environmental problems and solutions. I believe that an approach rooted and designed around community is crucial rather than a top-down approach which can marginalize communities and infringe on human and environmental rights.
