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Gen Z

McKenna Dunbar Creates Green Jobs, Spreads Black Joy

McKenna Dunbar started college at the University of Richmond intending to major in biochemistry. They planned to become an intellectual property attorney specializing in biotech. But on their very...

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What Is Environmental Activism? Youth of Color Creating Justice

Yancey Sanes grew up in the Bronx, and he’s now teaching the borough’s history of environmental activism to GenZ students at the very school he attended, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School. The...

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Cultural Worker Marie Medjine Antoine Plants Seeds of a Green Economy

Cultural worker Marie Medjine Antoine is an environmental activist and intern for RISE St. James, a faith-based environmental justice organization in Louisiana. Antoine couples a degree in sociology...

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What Is Environmental Activism? Bronx Youth Making Green Space

Brandon Gonzales, 16, is growing up in the South Bronx, also known as “Asthma Alley” for its historically high rates of childhood asthma. “I myself don't have asthma, but I know a lot of people who...

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Jackson’s Maisie Brown Links Social and Environmental Justice

Since her early teens, Maisie Brown has been using her digital media savvy to fight for racial equity: from joining the campaign to remove a Confederate emblem from the Mississippi state flag to...

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Gen Z Chief Devon Parfait Fights to Save His People’s Land

Chief Devon Parfait’s earliest memories revolve around the Louisiana bayous of Terrebonne Parish, where his people, the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, have lived for nearly...

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