Theme: Planet Action

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MIT Stata Center
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Alejandro Carrillo

Grassland regeneration via managed livestock grazing practices

Alejandro Carrillo is a fourth-generation rancher in the Chihuahuan desert. Rarely his precipitation goes beyond 8” per year (over 200mm). Alejandro’s ranch, Las Damas, has been part of multiple documentaries and studies focused on regenerative ranching such as Common Ground, Sacred Cow, To Which We Belong, and Water in Plain Sight. Alejandro’s Grasslands Regeneration Project company assists ranchers and organizations on regenerative grazing practices in North America, South America, Africa, Australia, and the Middle East. He also participates as a delegate to the UNCCD in multiple countries. Alejandro holds a MS in Technical Management from The Johns Hopkins University and BS in Computer Science from Monterrey Tech.

Andrew Jones

System dynamics modeler + creator of climate policy simulations

Andrew Jones is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Climate Interactive and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan. He is an expert on international climate and energy policy, a system dynamics modeler, a speaker, and a creator of policy simulations. He led the teams at Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan that developed En-ROADS and C-ROADS, two climate simulators used widely to engage global decision-makers. His climate policy work has appeared in media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. He co-accepted the ASysT Applied Systems Thinking Prize and the System Dynamics Society’s Applications Award as well as Dartmouth College’s Ray W. Smith Award for the most significant contribution to the status of the college.

Andrew Lo

Professor of finance + financial engineering

Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, a Professor of Finance, and the Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Lo's current research spans four areas: evolutionary models of investor behavior and adaptive markets, artificial intelligence and financial technology, healthcare finance, and impact investing. He has co-founded several asset management and biotech companies, and sits on the boards of several for-profit and non-profit public and private healthcare organizations.Lo holds a BA in economics from Yale University and an AM and PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Ashley Beckwith

Mechanical and biomedical engineer

Ashley Beckwith, Founder and CEO of Foray Bioscience, holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Beckwith has spent more than a decade building at interface of biology, materials, and manufacturing. Now, at Foray she leads a team of biologists, engineers, and data scientists to advance biomanufacturing technologies for the protection and restoration of ecosystems.

Beth Rattner

Biomimicry expert

Beth Rattner has been working for regenerative design since 2000. She is the former executive director of the Biomimicry Institute, an organization that brings the practice of bioinspired design to hundreds of thousands of people a year through its education and entrepreneurship programs. Before that, Beth worked with William McDonough and Michael Braungart on 'The Upcycle', the sequel to 'Cradle to Cradle'. She helped co-found and served as executive director to the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. Her latest project is Morph Collective, a collaborative network of passionate, experienced activators working to bring forward a vision of circularity and nature-based solutions to the problem of waste.

Brad Ack

Oceans + climate

Brad has focused his career at the intersection of science, technology and policy, in pursuit of the conservation of nature. He's designed and implemented leading-edge conservation and sustainable development initiatives around the world. Brad is the CEO of Ocean Visions, a science-based conservation organization at the nexus of the interlocking ocean and climate crises. Ocean Visions works to identify, test, develop and scale solutions to slow, stop and ultimately reverse these threats and regenerate critical components of the ocean-climate system. Brad has served as Senior Vice-President for Oceans at WWF-US; Executive Director of the Puget Sound Recovery Program; and Regional Director-Americas for the Marine Stewardship Council. Earlier he led conservation programs in the canyonlands of the Southwest and community-based conservation in tropical forests and seascapes of Latin America. Brad holds a Masters’ degree from Georgetown University and Bachelors’ degree at Macalester College.

Branko Kerkez

Branko Kerkez an Arthur F. Thurnau associate professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He was recognized in 2018 by the National Academy of Engineering as a Gilbreth Lecturer for his contributions to smart water systems. Kerkez is committed to cultivating collaboration, as demonstrated in his Real-Time Water Systems Lab, which is open to graduate students, undergraduate student groups, senior design teams, community members and high school students. This “Hacker Space,” originally funded by U-M’s Third Century Initiative, provides tools and supplies for safely deploying water sensor networks and systems that can reduce flooding and improve water quality.

Briana Kobor

Energy economist and regulatory expert

Briana Kobor is the Head of Energy Market Innovation at Google, where she leads the development of innovative solutions to decarbonize electricity systems and support Google's global operations. With over 18 years of experience in the energy industry, including roles in regulatory consulting and the non-profit sector, she brings deep expertise in navigating complex energy policy challenges. She is passionate about driving the transition to a more sustainable and resilient energy future.

Candace Fatima Vahlsing

Dr. Candace Fatima Vahlsing is the inaugural Vice President for Climate at the Ocean Conservancy, leading a team of policy experts and scientists working at the intersection of climate change and the ocean. She formerly served as the Senior Advisor for Climate at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), advising the Administrator on climate matters. Prior to her appointment at USAID, Ms. Vahlsing was the Associate Director for Climate, Energy, Environment, and Science at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where she oversaw a portfolio of more than $350 billion in direct investment across more than 20 Federal agencies. In the 115th and 116th Congress, she served as Senior Advisor to U.S. Senator Michael F. Bennet and was the Minority Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Finance Subcommittee for Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure. During the Obama-Biden Administration, Vahlsing served as a Senior Policy Advisor for Energy and Climate Change, working with the Domestic Policy Council, National Security Council, and Council on Environmental Quality. She holds a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dakota Gruener

Climate innovator

Dakota Gruener is the CEO of Reflective, a philanthropically funded organization working to accelerate responsible sunlight reflection research. Before this, Dakota built and led ID2020, the world’s leading standards-setting organization for privacy-protecting and user-managed digital ID.

David Warner

Builder + nonprofit founder

David Warner is Co-Founder of the Human Needs Project and both the Co-founder and President of Redhorse Constructors, a premier custom builder based in the Bay Area. For the past four decades he has been working on new urban formations around sustainable and resilient infrastructure and construction systems, serving as an advisor to startups that are creating new materials and systems for this new urban design intent. The mission extends to the Human Needs Project, a collaboration of academic and industry leaders who are in partnership with local communities to address the lack of basic services common in underserved urban populations.

Desirée Plata

Civil + environmental engineering

Desirée Plata’s research seeks to maximize technology’s benefit to society while minimizing environmental impacts in industrially important practices through the use of geochemical tools and chemical mechanistic insights. A central tenant of Plata's work for over a decade has been that academic researchers in environmental science should be partnering with industry to solve important environmental challenges. She is a co-founder of two climate and energy related startups: Nth Cycle and Moxair. Plata earned her doctoral degree in Chemical Oceanography and Environmental Chemistry from the MIT and the WHOI’s Joint Program in Oceanography (2009). She previously served as Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University and Associate Director for Research at the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. Plata is now Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT and director of the MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium.

Doug Arent

Doug Arent has proven leadership in building and guiding teams with technical, strategic, and analysis competencies, market, policy and strategic planning in clean energy. He has extensive senior international governmental and private enterprise counsel experience in clean energy, sustainable development, and related areas and management.

Fonger Ypma

Arctic ice restoration, energy transition

Fonger Ypma is the Founder and CEO of Arctic Reflections, a Dutch social enterprise with the moonshot mission to preserve the Arctic. He is an experienced cleantech entrepreneur and worked previously in the Energy Transition, and as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Physics from Oxford University.

Inna Braverman

Wave energy entrepreneur

Inna Braverman founded Eco Wave Power at the age of 24. Under her leadership, the company installed its first grid-connected wave energy array and secured a significant project pipeline of 404.7MW. In July 2021 Inna Braverman led Eco Wave Power’s IPO on Nasdaq Capital Market (Stock Symbol: WAVE). Inna is recognized by Wired Magazine as one of the “Females Changing the World”, by Fast Company as one of the world’s “Most Creative People in Business” and is the winner of the United Nations “Global Climate Action Award”. For Inna, clean electricity is a very personal journey, as she was born two weeks before the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster and suffered respiratory arrest due to the pollution in the region. Luckily, her mother, a nurse, came to her crib on time and gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, which saved her life. She got a second chance in life and decided to devote it to the development of a clean and safe method of electricity production.

Jean Oelwang

Coalition builder

Jean Oelwang is the founding CEO and President of Virgin Unite, an entrepreneurial foundation that builds collectives, incubates ideas and re-invents systems for a better world. She has supported the incubation and growth of 22 leadership collectives – from The Elders, to the B Team, to the Planetary Guardians. Jean is also the author of the book "Partnering: Forge the deep connections that make great things happen".

Jennifer Turliuk

Entrepreneur, angel investor, author, technologist and climate tech venture investor focused on AI and climate

Jennifer Turliuk is an entrepreneur, climate tech investor, author, speaker and technologist. She is Practice Leader, Climate and Energy AI at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and a MIT Sloan Fellow. Recently, she was Partner of Climate Capital Syndicate (one of the most active funders of climate tech startups), and Partner and Co-Instructor of Climate Angels (an educational program about climate tech angel investing). Previously, she co-founded an education company, bootstrapped to self-sufficiency, raised VC funding, and exited through acquisition. She has been a board member, consultant, and mentor for entrepreneurs. She graduated from Queen’s University and Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program (at NASA Ames).

Jonathan Lundgren

Farmer + agroecologist

Dr. Lundgren is an agroecologist, Executive Director of Ecdysis Foundation, and CEO for Blue Dasher Farm. Lundgren’s research and education programs are helping applied science evolve in ways that foster the evolution of a regenerative food system. He regularly interacts with the public and farmers around the world regarding ecologically intensive farming and how biodiversity fuels the resilience and productivity of an agroecosystem and rural communities.

Juan Enriquez

Futurist + author

An active investor in early stage private companies in the life sciences and big data sectors, Juan Enriquez is one of the world’s leading authorities on the uses and benefits of genomic code. Juan writes, speaks, and teaches about the profound changes that genomics and other life sciences will cause in business, technology, politics, and society. He is the co-author of the book “Evolving ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Shaping Life on Earth”, exploring how humans increasingly shape the environment, themselves, and other living species. He is the managing director of Excel Venture Management, a life sciences VC firm. He also served as founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project and is on the Genetics Advisory Council for the Harvard Medical School. Juan has published papers and articles in a variety of forums including The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, Science, Nature, and The New York Times.

Karsten Temme

Chief Innovation Officer, Pivot Bio

Karsten Temme is co-founder and chief innovation officer of Pivot Bio, one of the world’s leading agtech companies, delivering patented crop nutrition technologies to farmers that harness the power of nature to reliably and productively grow the food the world needs in the face of increasing volatility.

Kerry Nickols

Ocean scientist

Kerry Nickols, PhD is an interdisciplinary ocean scientist with experience across ecosystems who has logged over 1000 scuba dives. She is a Senior Program Officer at Ocean Visions leading the Marine Ecosystem Repair Program. Before deciding to focus on addressing the ocean-climate crisis, Kerry was an Associate Professor at California State University Northridge where she studied coastal marine ecosystems and climate change, including the design and evaluation of Marine Protected Areas and the potential for macroalgae to mitigate ocean acidification and hypoxia. She also served on state, federal, and international committees providing scientific guidance on conservation issues. Kerry holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from University of California, Davis, and a B.A. in Earth and Planetary Science as well as Integrative Biology from University of California, Berkeley.

Laney Siegner

Agroecology + education

Laney Siegner is the founder and co-director of Climate Farm School, a program offering experiential farm-based education on regenerative agriculture and climate action. She brings together her passion for teaching, developed while working as an 8th Grade Academy teaching fellow in Boston for Citizen Schools, and her love of farming, learned during summers working as a farm intern on Lopez Island, in her current work. Laney earned her Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from U.C. Berkeley and now lives on a farm in Sonoma County, CA.

Laurie Wayburn

Conservationist + author

Laurie A. Wayburn is the President and co-founder of Pacific Forest Trust. Her passion is creating, facilitating, and implementing a new vision for valuing, conserving, and managing forests in all their varied, complex splendor—the whole system. This management model can transform our reliance on timber products to pay the bills to one where we value and pay for all their essential gifts to us: water, climate, wildlife and renewal. A graduate of Harvard College, she worked with the United Nations Environment Program, as well as the Ecological Sciences Division of UNESCO (Man and Biosphere Program) in sustainable development for over a decade.

Maria Ivanova

Global environmental governance scholar + plastic policy advisor

Maria Ivanova is the Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. She is a global governance scholar focusing on sustainability and the performance of international institutions. Maria has been deeply involved in the negotiations of a global treaty on plastic pollution, contributing to solutions for one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.

Mickey McManus

Design scientist

Mickey McManus is the author of Trillions - Thriving in the Information Ecology. He’s a senior advisor, leadership coach, faculty in executive education at BCG, a research fellow emeritus at Autodesk’s Office of the CTO, and a visiting scholar in bioengineering at Tufts University.

Mike Pritchard

Climate simulation research scientist

Mike Pritchard is director of climate simulation research at NVIDIA, and professor and principal investigator of the Computational Clouds and Climate Lab at the University of California, Irvine. Pritchard’s primary research interest is on advancing cloud-resolving weather and climate simulations using physics-informed machine learning. His work blends next-generation global atmospheric simulation algorithms, theoretical climate dynamics, machine learning, and high-performance computing. Pritchard received his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego.

Natasha Zarine

Socio-environmental development

Natasha Zarine is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of EcoSattva Environmental Solutions, a social impact company based out of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra - with a vision to build sustainable, inclusive, and climate resilient cities, towns, and villages. As the Director of Center for Applied Research and People's Engagement (CARPE), Natasha has leveraged her experience in the socio-environmental and climate sectors, as well as the waste management industry, to bring systems level solutions to complex, pervasive civic challenges. Natasha is celebrated as an Acumen Fellow, winner of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment, and a WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities finalist.

Nathanial Matthews

Sustainable development, climate finance, nature-based solutions

Dr. Nathanial Matthews is Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of PlanetaryX, a nature tech company that delivers a comprehensive end-to-end solution that brings together the private and public sector, scientists and local communities to protect biodiversity and build resilience. Nate has over 20 years’ experience managing, scaling, and monitoring resilience, water, ecosystem and agricultural programs in partnership with governments, NGOs, communities, and the private sector across more than 50 countries. He has published over 85 scientific papers and reports, two books, and is a regular contributor to media and global science and policy. Nate sits on numerous boards and committees and holds additional positions as a Visiting Professor at King's College London, a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and a Fellow of the Explorer’s Club. He previously worked in leadership roles with the Global Resilience Partnership, CGIAR, UNEP, various NGOs, and the private sector.

Paula DiPerna

Author, philanthropic policy advisor

Paula DiPerna is a widely published author, strategic policy advisor and executive. Her most recent book is "Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet" (Wiley). DiPerna worked closely with explorer and environmental pioneer, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, writing and co-producing numerous documentary films, traveling globally with the legendary ship, Calypso. She wrote "Cluster Mystery: Epidemic and the Children of Woburn, Mass." (C.V. Mosby), the first book to analyze a leukemia cluster possibly associated with contaminated drinking water. Her novel, "The Discoveries of Mrs. Christopher Columbus" (Permanent Press), was published in the US, Germany, Turkey and Portugal. Her diverse subjects have appeared in leading publications, including Forbes.com, NYT, and a current column for ESG Review and Environment magazine. DiPerna has served in key executive roles, including President of the Joyce Foundation and President of the pioneering Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX).

Pedro Henriques da Silva

Investor, advocate, and Director of Shifting Trillions at the Sierra Club Foundation (SCF)

Pedro Henriques da Silva is a passionate advocate for everyone's right to a healthy planet and the role of capital in entrenching harmful systems, or in transforming them. His work has been featured in Forbes, ImpactAlpha, Reuters Sustainable Investing, and Semafor, and he was the 2023 recipient of the Intentional Endowments Network’s General Sustainable Investing Leadership Award. Pedro currently serves as the Director for Shifting Trillions at the Sierra Club Foundation (SCF), the independent fiscal sponsor of the Sierra Club. In this capacity, he provides strategic direction for the Foundation’s leadership role in shifting trillions of dollars towards an economy that benefits people and the planet. Rooted in his current role and formative personal background, Pedro works to help move capital toward a healthy planet for all. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Reed College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and completed the General Course at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Pete Malinowski

Oyster farmer + founder

Pete Malinowski grew up farming oysters with his parents and siblings on the Fishers Island Oyster Farm. His passion for the environment and education led him to the New York Harbor School, where he founded the school’s Aquaculture and Oyster Restoration Programs and spent five years as a teacher. This work at Harbor School led to the development of Billion Oyster Project in 2014.

Raul Polit Casillas

Space architect + complex systems design engineer

Dr. Raul Polit Casillas is the founder, CEO, and chief architect of ARQESS – a robotic self-sustainable architecture company. As a NASA space architect and systems engineer, he worked for a decade on highly innovative projects and technologies (e.g., spacecraft 4D printing), where he created and led the JPL Atelier advanced design facility. Raul is a licensed architect with works around the world, furniture designer, art curator, poet, published researcher, and serial entrepreneur. As an awarded technologist he has led many ground-breaking projects (e.g., NASA-Autodesk AI-designed Europa Lander, JPL-Disney program). He holds a PhD in Sys. design Eng. (UNISTRA), MSc in architecture & construction Eng. (UPV), and MSc in space studies (ISU). He is an Amazon MARS and Google SciFoo alumni, holding multiple grants and awards from NASA, ESA, JPL, Caltech, UPV, AIAA, etc. With feet on the ground and head in the stars he is relentlessly committed to improving architecture on Earth and beyond.

Robin Chazdon

Tropical forest dynamics, regeneration + restoration

Robin Chazdon is Professor Emerita in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Connecticut (1988-2016) and part-time Research Professor with the Forest Research Institute at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Her long-term and ongoing collaborative research focuses on natural regeneration of forests, forest and landscape restoration, and ecosystem services provided by forests. Since 2016, Dr. Chazdon works as a consultant in the global conservation and restoration arena. She is an active member of the FAO Task Force on Best Practices for the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, and leads the development and implementation of the Capacity, Knowledge and Learning Action Plan for the UN Decade. Dr. Chazdon is a Senior Fellow with the World Resources Institute Global Restoration Initiative, where she serves as co-director of the Assisted Natural Regeneration Alliance.

Rodger Savory

Rodger Savory is the pioneer of Biological Carpeting and Founder of Savory Holistics LLC finding solutions to the world's most pressing and unsolved problem of the last 12,000 years. How to halt and reverse global desertification and the resulting climate change associated with it. He has been a soldier, scholar, farmer and rancher on 3 continents and has a passion for wild places, people and life.

Roger Sorkin

Resilience, sustainability and climate communications

Roger Sorkin is an award-winning film producer, writer and director, and the founder of the American Resilience Project, a nonprofit that influences public policy, ignites civic action, and drive investments that strengthen environmental, economic, and social resilience. He has served a wide range of nonprofit, academic and government institutions, including the UN World Food Programme, USAID, Indianapolis Airport Authority, U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, NATO, and many others. He has taught energy and environmental communication at the Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, and is a featured speaker to diverse audiences across government, academia, NGOs, faith groups, trade associations and others. He received a B.A. in anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in communication from Stanford University, and happily resides in the hills of western Massachusetts with his wife and three children, who help take his mind off civilization’s unprecedented challenges.

Scott M. Belcher

Molecular and environmental toxicology + sustainable chemical safety

Scott Belcher is an endocrine toxicologist and an expert on the actions of hormones, endocrine disruptors (EDs), and adverse health impacts of EDs and other environmental toxicants. His research program has made seminal discoveries that have defined the molecular processes involved with adverse health impacts caused by very low levels of EDs across all levels of biological complexity. Current research efforts focus on identifying adverse health impacts resulting from exposure to EDs, toxic metals and per- and polyfluorinated chemicals. The high-level focus of his research efforts is to improve public and environmental health by discovering ways to limit harmful exposures to man-made toxic chemicals. He is also an ED science expert serving on numerous global science-policy and advisory panels related to the safety and sustainability of toxic chemicals and pollutants.

Shanna Swan

Environmental + reproductive epidemiologist

Shanna H. Swan, PhD, is an award-winning scientist based at Mt. Sinai (New York, NY). Dr. Swan has published more than 200 scientific papers and has been featured in extensive media coverage around the world. Her appearances include ABC News, NBC Nightly News, 60 Minutes, CBS News, PBS, BBC, PRI Radio, NPR, and The Joe Rogan Experience as well as in leading magazines and newspapers, including; Financial Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, Time, US News & World Report, The Guardian, Bloomberg News, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Daily News (New York), Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, Daily Mail (London), New Scientist, Mental Floss, Mother Jones, New Telegraph, and Euronews.

Sy Montgomery

Leading Naturalist

Researching articles, films, and her 38 books for adults and children, nationally bestselling author Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Rwanda, hunted by a tiger in India, and swum with piranhas, electric eels and pink dolphins in the Amazon. Her work has taken her from the cloud forest of Papua New Guinea (for a book on tree kangaroos) to the Altai Mountains of the Gobi (for another on snow leopards.) For THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS (a National Book Award finalist) she befriended octopuses at the New England aquarium and scuba dived and snorkeled with wild octopuses in Mexico and French Polynesia; next she drew on her scuba skills to cage dive with great white sharksand swim freely with giant oceanic manta rays. For her most recent national bestseller for adults, Of Time and Turtles, she befriended a 42-pound wild snapping turtle named Fire Chief, who shows his extraordinary trust by allowing her to feed him by hand.

Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña

Glaciologist + educator

Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña is a Ukrainian-American scientist, educator, and mountaineer, studying human impact on snow and ice in the Arctic, Antarctic, and glaciated peaks of the planet. She leads immersive trips through Science in the Wild and works with students, adventurers, and local communities to educate and train them on collecting and analyzing environmental data.

Yet-Ming Chiang

Yet-Ming Chiang is a Taiwanese-American materials scientist and engineer, who is currently the Kyocera Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been influential in the development of new materials for energy storage, transfer, and power of a variety of different devices and vehicles. Chiang was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for contributions to the understanding of new energy storage materials and their commercialization.

Zoe Davis

Climate resilience strategist

Zoe serves as a Senior Climate Resilience Project Manager on the Climate Ready Boston team with a focus on heat resilience. As a project manager, she supports neighborhood climate resilience planning, the integration of climate change preparedness into municipal projects and planning, as well as the development of preparedness resources for residents and other stakeholders. Before joining the City, Zoe served as a land stewardship coordinator and TerraCorps Service Member with the Mystic River Watershed Association. There, she organized habitat restoration projects in public parks and partnered with community groups and local government agencies to create climate education programs and forums for public discourse about coastal resilience.