Meet the 2024 Switzer Fellows

Natalie Baillargeon received a BA in Environmental Science & Policy from Smith College, where she studied how ecological systems are influenced by land use and climate change. She works as a Policy Analyst at Woodwell Climate Research...

Alejandra Cano is a transnational emerging scholar cross-pollinating Indigenous ways of knowing, agroecology, and ecological economics to conserve stingless honeybees.

Ataya is an enrolled citizen of the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes and a descendant of the northern Ute Tribe from the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in northeastern Utah. Her dissertation work examines the complex and contradictory...

Sydney Clements is a researcher and community organizer based in Eastern Connecticut. Her work focuses on the intersection of farmer viability, food access and environmental sustainability.

As an organizer and researcher, Hasmik is passionate about supporting food sovereignty movements in California and Armenia. She approaches this work with lenses from both the natural sciences and feminist studies.

Natasha Frazier is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe pursuing a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University with a focus on development and environmental policy. Natasha is a 2024 Udall intern in...

Sol is driven by global environmentalism, particularly by understanding how knowledge about the environment is produced, shared, and influences our relationship with it. Her current research focuses on the intersection of sanitation and...

Temesgen Gebreyesus is a first-generation college student from South Los Angeles, California. While at UCLA, he was compelled to volunteer for the Ethiopian-Democratic Club of Los Angeles, and advocated for the closure of urban oil-drills...

Landry Guillen is a first-generation graduate student and Master of Forestry candidate at Yale School of the Environment. Her interests exist at the nexus of urban and community forestry, regenerative food systems, and environmental justice...

Nia Harmon is a PhD candidate in chemistry at Yale University. Her research aims to develop new solar-powered, energy-efficient catalysts to transform nitrate contaminants found in groundwater into useful products, such as ammonia...

Jazz Henry is pursuing a Masters in Urban Planning at UCLA with a concentration in sustainability and design/development. He previously attended Occidental College where he was a four-year member of the Men's Soccer team and majored in...

Chelsea Kirk is the Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Building Equity and Transit team at Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, a nonprofit dedicated to building community leadership and power for economic justice. Chelsea's work...

Fen is an avian ecologist unraveling how forested landscapes can jointly support ecosystems and human need. Their work centers around the North Woods, a unique mosaic of 10 million acres of largely private commercial forestland in present...

Emily Li is a second-year Master of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning student at Tufts University studying community wealth building in immigrant & BIPOC communities through economic and climate justice. She is currently a Rappaport...

Sanjana Paul is an engineer, environmental educator, and graduate student in Environmental Policy and Planning at MIT, where her research focuses on process innovation and technical/policy boundaries of renewable energy systems and the...

Kathryn Rodgers is a PhD candidate at Boston University School of Public Health, where she is researching environmental causes of Mesoamerican nephropathy. She is also a trainee in the Boston University Graduate Program in Urban...

Selena Rowan is a master's student in Energy Technology and Policy at Cal Poly Humboldt, focusing on rural climate resilience and holistic land management. She combines data modeling and policy analysis with a commitment to community health, ecological restoration, and environmental stewardship to develop innovative solutions for healthy forests in California.

Alexii (Amah Mutsun Tribal Band) uses ethnographic research to examine opportunities for tribal land access and co-management through collaborative stewardship in central coastal California. He serves on the Lands Committee of Amah Mutsun...

Summer Sullivan is a PhD candidate in environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Broadly, her work examines how increasingly digital landscapes affect workers and ecologies. She is also an avid organizer with the graduate student workers union (UAW 4811), member of her department’s Diversity Committee, teaching assistant, undergraduate mentor, and engaged scholar.