EJ Changemakers are driven to know more about the world and make a habit of observing, pondering, and questioning their environment. 

EJ Changemakers strategically seek out reliable sources of data, on both the past and the present, and use that data to inform their understanding of the climate crisis and their decisions on how to restore environmental justice. 

EJ Changemakers maintain optimism by being well-informed on liberatory solutions to environmental crises, and draw on these solutions while advocating for change to encourage enthusiasm. 

After our agriculture module, my lab group wanted to understand the effects of excess salt on plant germination. Due to sea levels rising, high levels of salt will become more common. With this lab, we wanted to conduct an experiment to test this hypothesis and It was successful! View our lab summary above.

As our Action Project was beginning, our group needed to deep dive into why poor air quality is bad and how it disproportionately affects people of color. Through this process we learned a lot of information that was very important in our advocacy efforts.

Solutions were a big part of our EJ education because they help us to advocate for productive change. For a project we were assigned, I researched solutions for climate change; I focused on seaweed farming. I never knew one of my favorite snacks could be a huge resource to sequester carbon in our atmosphere and oceans!

In replacement of a standard test you would take in school we had module summaries. Above is an example of a mod sum I made to help me become a more informed advocate of Environmental Justice. View the full version in the hyperlinked title.

One of the books I read for our English Lit Circles was The Intersectional Environmentalism by Leah Thomas. This book was a fabulous read and definitely my favorite of the semester. I think it perfectly encapsulated the intersectionality of the movement.