Climate Champions 15 Women Fighting for Your Future

by Sarah, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9781641607001
• ISBN10: 1641607009
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-03-14
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

These 15 contemporary climate champions are on the frontlines of science to create a sustainable future on Earth.

They are climate scientists, journalists, professors, academics, researchers, and policy makers from around the world who draft policies with real-world impact, run science labs to find new answers to old problems, and lead organizations at the forefront of change. These women reveal how racial and social injustices lie at the root of the climate crisis.  

Their stories are accessible and energetic, with spotlights on the triumphs and struggles of women who are working to protect the planet.  

As young readers learn how these champions are rising up around the world, they will learn how to be part of the solution.

Author Biography

Rachel Sarah is a journalist and the author of Girl Warriors. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Yahoo, POPSUGAR, and more. Rachel was a 2022 Kiplinger Fellow, one of twenty-two journalists from around the world selected for the Public Affairs Journalism’s inaugural class in climate change reporting. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area on Ohlone land. Visit her online at RachelSarah.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Molly Kawahata — Keep on Climbing
2: Anna Jane Joyner — Flipping the Script on Climate
3: Wanjiku "Wawa" Gatheru — Black Girl Environmentalist
4: Amy Cardinal Christianson — Burning Good Fires
5: Jeanette Davis — Just Keep Swimming
6: Amy Westervelt — Calling out the System one Podcast at a Time
7: Jennifer Uchendu — Sustainable Vibes
8: Tessa Khan — Keep It in The Ground
9: Jacquelyn Gill — Lost in the Ice Age
10: Trimita Chakma -- Rising up in the Global South
11: Nikki Roach — A Day in the Life of a Conservation Biologist
12: Tori Tsui — Bad Activist
13: Brigitte Baptiste — Queering Ecology
14: Katharine Hayhoe — The Science Mom Who's Saving Us
15: Anushka Bhaskar — No Justice, No Peace
 
Acknowledgments
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