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My name is Ashley Eggleston and I am currently an 11th grade student at Laurel School in Shaker Heights, OH. I joined the environmental justice semester because I had an interest in social justice and the environmental crisis but I felt like I was not helping. This semester has given me a voice to talk about and advocate for the issues I am passionate about. It has also provided me with the avenues to explore future career opportunities.
The Environmental Justice Semester (EJS) at Laurel is a semester-long, academic program open to Tenth and Eleventh Grade girls from any public, private, parochial, or charter school in Northeast Ohio. The learner-centered Semester takes place on Laurel’s 150-acre Butler Campus in Russell Township, Ohio, which offers a natural space with terrestrial, aquatic, and agricultural ecosystems for student changemakers to devise solutions for the ecological and social challenges facing urban Cleveland, a rustbelt city grappling with many environmental and social justice issues.
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