Members
Alyssa Trasvina
UCSD Class of 2023
Major & Minor: Environmental Systems; Anthropology: Climate Change and Human Solutions
Motivations for the Movement: I’ve always loved nature in all its wildness which is why I knew coming into college that I wanted to focus on conservation. Recently, I’ve become interested in connecting culture and personal wellness with the environment as a way of raising eco-awareness in our daily lives.
Anna Nazaryan
UCSD Class of 2022
Major: Anthropology: Biological Anthropology
Motivations for the Movement: I love being outdoors and helping clean the environment. Climate change effects every aspect of our lives and it has a influence on our every day life. It has been something I’ve always been engaged in.
Divya Bhatia
UCSD Class of 2021
Major & Minor: Global Health; Anthropology: Climate Change and Human Solutions
Motivations for the Movement: I have always felt connected to nature, but after studying it in university, I realize just how problematic Western relationships with nature are! Lately, I’ve been focused on understanding various culture’s relationships to the environment (“good”, “bad”, and everything in between). I think learning about how different communities connect with their surroundings offers valuable insight that can transform the way we take climate action.
Natalie Faivre
UCSD Class of 2021
Major & Minor: Biology: Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution; Anthropology: Climate Change and Human Solutions
Motivations for the Movement: I’m interested in how we can create cultural and lifestyle changes that center around ethical and environmental action. Seeing this change at the corporate level is important to me because they are largely responsible for the negative environmental effects yet are hardly held accountable. However, I also want to empower the individual to find their own connection to nature, and bring light to alternative living styles that are in more alignment with the earth.
Sidney York
UCSD Class of 2022
Skye Zhang
UCSD Class of 2022
Major: Anthropology: Climate Change and Human Solutions
Motivations for the Movement: My interests in the climate and environmental justice movement include addressing corporate accountability and reducing consumption, through the lens of intersectionality. I am particularly focused on recognizing how privilege impacts access to sustainable options and allows for the luxury of choice. In my efforts, I also like to remind myself that the climate movement is not an individual moment, it is a collective movement.
Major: Anthropology: Climate Change and Human Solutions
Motivations for the Movement: I support and encourage healthy, happy living and believe being immersed in nature aids humans on this journey. I want to help bring people home to nature because, though it may seem we are so different, we are part of nature just like the other living beings of Earth. I want people to realize the impact they have as an individual but also recognize that great change happens on the collective level.
Sophia Sylvestri
UCSD Class of 2021
Major: Anthropology: Climate Change and Human Solutions
Motivations for the Movement: I am extremely interested and motivated by local environmental politics and efforts that are effecting our communities. Community engagement and education is an important aspect of the movement that I am particularly interested in. I want to see our underserved communities have better resources and care from the city and county. Acknowledgment that many of our climate policies and efforts are not looking at those communities who are bearing the weight of climate change is a dominant part in my interests.