Environmental Policy & Law

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AJ Hudson

2021 Fellow
A. J. Hudson is a JD candidate at Yale Law School and a recent MESc graduate of the Yale School of the Environment (2019). Before law school, AJ spent five years teaching and eventually helped to found a public high school in one of the...
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Tanner Waters

2021 Fellow
Dr. Tanner Waters (he/him) is a marine biologist and science policy advisor dedicated to advancing California’s ocean and coastal conservation through evidence-based decision making.
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Gabriela Alberola

2021 Fellow
Gabriela ‘Gaby’ Alberola is originally from Panama City, Panama, where her passion for environmental and social justice was born. For her undergraduate research at the University of Panama, she conducted a botanical inventory of a forest...
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Ángel Ibañez

2021 Fellow
Ángel is an MBA and MPP candidate at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he is a Bacon Environmental Fellow through the Center for Public Leadership. His work focuses on expanding clean energy...
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Vera receives ASA award for outstanding publication

Lourdes Vera is the winner of the 2021 Robert Boguslaw Award for her lead role in the publication “When Data Justice and Environmental Justice Meet: Formulating a Response to Extractive Logic Through Environmental Data Justice” published in 2019 in Information, Communication & Society. Vera is a 2019 Switzer Fellow, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University, and a member of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI).
June 8, 2021
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Vaquero receives Equal Justice Works Fellowship

Idalmis Vaquero will defend the environmental and housing rights of Black and Latinx families impacted by industrial lead contamination in East and Southeast Los Angeles.
May 26, 2021
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Erika Zavaleta appointed to California Fish and Game Commission

Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Erika Zavaleta, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz and a Switzer Fellow, to the California Fish and Game Commission.
May 10, 2021
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Policy options to address climate induced displacement from the Northern Triangle

Camila Bustos is part of an expert group from Harvard, Yale, and the University Network for Human Rights calling on Biden administration to revise immigration and climate policy to afford protections to those fleeing devastating climate change impacts in Central America.
April 29, 2021
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Biden's world climate summit must include a pledge to tackle methane emissions

Sarah Smith's op-ed in The Hill urges the Biden administration to adopt strong methane standards in the United States' new Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement.
April 15, 2021
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Perrault writes op-ed on the mounting costs of climate risk for imperiled cities

Anne Perrault's op-ed in the Hill argues for a bold reimagining of financial risk and responsibility in the era of climate change. Imperiled cities, mounting costs: Facing the big climate risk blindspot
April 5, 2021