Hi, my name is Jannah Kazmi and I am a sophomore at Laurel School. I have joined the EJ Semester this year, and it caught my eye because I was curious on how to incorporate being mindful of a bigger cause throughout my life, no matter what career I chose.
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.