About Me
I’m a senior Politics/Environmental Studies Major who wants to change the world. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, I’m currently living in Walla Walla, Washington attending Whitman College. For the past three years I’ve been heavily involved with Campus Climate Challenge and I’m currently the Sustainability Coordinator for the college. I’m also interested in community organizing and have worked in lower-income neighborhoods in Walla Walla to decrease crime and increase Latino civic engagement. I recently helped found the Walla Walla Carbon Offset Plan to my interest in environment issues and poverty alleviation by distributing energy efficient light-bulbs a few of the neighborhoods where I worked previously.
I’m also interested in international development and especially in increasing off-the-grid, renewable sources of energy in developing countries as a means to increase economic productivity and solve our climate crisis. In 2008, I helped start a biodigester project in Kakamega, Kenya that uses cow dung as an alternative source of fuel to wood harvested from the tropical rainforest. I’m hoping to return to Kenya next year with a Fulbright research grant.
I do quite a bit of youth organizing, as the coordinator of a youth network for the United Nations Environment Programme and a youth delegate to the upcoming climate conference in Copenhagen with SustainUS.
Recently, I’ve developed an interest in politics from my summer internship in the White House Office of Political Affairs, we’ll see where that takes me…
