Hi! My name is Madeline Friedman. I am a sophomore student in Laurel School's EJ semester. I am extremely passionate about social justice, particularly in the healthcare industry. I joined the Environmental Justice semester because I wanted to grow as a changemaker and become someone who can make a meaningful difference in the causes that matter to me.
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.