Climate Change

Fellow

Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie

2026 Fellow
Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie is third year student at Yale Law School, where he is a student director of the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic, and was a co-president of the Yale Environmental Law Association and co-chair for the 2026 New Directions in Environmental Law Conference. Justin is interested in working at the intersection of environmental and Tribal issues, and particularly on questions that touch on land use and the clean energy transition.
Fellow

Thomas King

2026 Fellow
Thomas Hyo-min King is an environmental designer and urbanist from rural Nova Scotia, Canada. His work focuses on strategies for delivering building rehabilitations and energy infrastructure that improve extant living conditions while reinforcing energetic and economic democracy among disinvested building populations.
Fellow

Brook Thompson

2026 Fellow
Brook M Thompson is a Yurok and Karuk Native American Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz ENVS, scientist, civil/ environmental engineer, children's book author, water activist, and artist. Thompson's areas of expertise includes Chinook Salmon on the Klamath, environmental justice, restoration theory, and Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
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Christopher Ihinegbu

2026 Fellow
Christopher Ihinegbu's research integrates environmental justice into wildfire and flood resilience, focusing on practical approaches to facilitate cascading resilience. His work aims to inform environmental advocacy and translational science by promoting leverage for equitable disaster resilience. As a Climate Justice Champion with the Climate Action Campaign, he advocates for equitable climate solutions.
Fellow Story

Lewis on theology of food and labor in the face of climate change

In this article for U.S. Catholic Magazine, Michelle describes the injustice in our current food labor system, tells her own story about how growing food helped her personal liberation, and proposes a liberatory theology of food that would help everyone gain access to grow their own food in safety.
May 27, 2026
Leadership Grant Grant

Engaging Communities in Advancing a Healthy and Resilient West Coast

Tanner Waters will serve as the California Representative to the West Coast Ocean Science Action Agenda, working to inform, engage and support communities in advancing shared science priorities across the U.S. West Coast through intentional and inclusive engagement.
May 27, 2026
Fellow Story

Kapnick on Volts Podcast: So, how's the climate doing?

Host David Roberts and Sarah “discuss the “accidental geoengineering” experiment of reducing shipping aerosols, the newfound ability to pinpoint methane leaks from space, and the legal implications of being able to attribute financial losses to climate change.”
March 26, 2026
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Linda Shi: Rethinking the governance of property can help communities adapt to climate change

In this blog and research paper, the authors argue that “dominant American property regimes fundamentally constrain attempts to plan for and achieve socially just and ecologically reparative adaptation.”
March 26, 2026
Fellow Story

Fraga shares Spring 2026 Southwest Superbloom status and science

Naomi Fraga shared her perspective on spring blooms in the Southwest this season with the LA Times, and City Cast Las Vegas. According to the LA Times story, Naomi said a superbloom is typically classified as a regional phenomenon where you...
March 26, 2026
Fellow Story

Díaz Ruvalcaba selected to CORO Climate Resilience Leadership Network

This immersive program prepares leaders to “navigate complexity and catalyze systemic solutions for a more sustainable future.”
March 26, 2026