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Isabel Cabrera
Isabel Cabrera
She/They
She/They
Major: Conservation & Resource Studies
Major: Conservation & Resource Studies
Isabel is a fourth-year student from San Diego exploring how our relationships with land and each other shape pathways to collective liberation and ecological justice. She studies and engages with decolonial approaches through food systems, community care, and embodied practices. She is heavily involved at the Berkeley Student Food Collective and spends time learning from local urban farms. Isabel believes in the power of lived experience and shared knowledge in creating more just and regenerative futures.
Nicole Parker
Nicole Parker
She/Her
She/Her
Major: Environmental Engineering Science
Major: Environmental Engineering Science
Nicole is a fourth-year from Los Angeles. Her passion for environmental justice began with a trip to Japan. There she learned about the rebuilding of communities in the wake of the triple earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. Through this, she was introduced to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and was provided with a global perspective on environmental issues. Along with engineering solutions, she is also interested in sustainability strategy and policy.
Anna Julian
Anna Julian
She/they
She/they
Major: Society & Environment
Major: Society & Environment
Anna is a fourth-year from Pacifica, CA. She is interested in ancestral forms of care and medicine, implementing solutions to compounding crises on the community level. She is inspired by alternatives to Westernized education as a tool to dismantle structural oppression. She is passionate about labor and workers rights and organizes with Students for International Labor Solidarity (SILS) on campus and recommends that everyone join!
Jordan Honeysucker
Jordan Honeysucker
She/Her
She/Her
Major: Psychology, Public Health, African American Studies
Major: Psychology, Public Health, African American Studies
Jordan is a fourth-year from Ocala, FL who is incredibly interested in environmental health and intersections of climate justice, race, healthcare, and policy. Her goal is to pursue medical school and become a health advocate for her community. She has worked at the California Department of Public Health and Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She hopes to continue her work for Black populations who are harmed by environmental racism.
Finn Does
Finn Does
He/They
He/They
Major: Society & Environment, Political Economy
Major: Society & Environment, Political Economy
Finn is a first-year from the Bay Area with five years of climate justice leadership, including Co-Chairing the Bay Area Youth Climate Summit, a Gen-Z-led organization building climate literacy with over 9,000 California youth from 230+ high schools to date. Finn is dedicated to tackling the climate crisis through environmental framings—the stories, tropes, and images used to spark action. He's worked with the Sunrise Movement, NPR, PBS, UCSF, the California Academy of Sciences, & more.
Sage Lenier - Creator
Sage Lenier - Creator
She/Her
She/Her
Sage graduated from UC Berkeley in 2020. She spent her time at Cal building the course and taught it for five semesters to 600 students. She is now running our nonprofit, Sustainable & Just Future.
Sage is passionate about the intersection of human rights and sustainability, a main focus of this course.
Previous Instructors: Ellinor Arzbaecher, Anu Thirunarayanan, Lovisa Lagercrantz, Annie Mitchell & Victoria Bartoszewicz.
Previous Instructors: Ellinor Arzbaecher, Anu Thirunarayanan, Lovisa Lagercrantz, Annie Mitchell & Victoria Bartoszewicz.
Previous TAs: Nyah Tisdell, Kira Rodriguez, Katherine Faust, Gabby Doerschlag, and Aleena Ismail.
Previous TAs: Nyah Tisdell, Kira Rodriguez, Katherine Faust, Gabby Doerschlag, and Aleena Ismail.
We would also like to acknowledge all of the past 1,800 students, without whom this course would not have been possible.
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