Fellows List
Christianah Oyengua
As the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory Analyst, Christianah acquires, organizes, manages and analyzes citywide GHG emissions data, and contributes to drafting the GHG Inventory report for the City of New York. She is a doctoral candidate at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU) School of the Environment studying Environmental Science, Policy and Risk Management.
Foundation Sponsor:
New York Community Trust
Host Organization:
New York City Mayor’s Office of Sustainability
Urooj Raja
For The Solutions Project, Urooj is developing a policy tracking infrastructure to help staff make better organizational decisions, and working to enhance an existing story-telling tool. The story-telling tool is a national map that breaks down how states in the U.S. can take a path to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Her work focuses on user accessibility, simplicity, and to help define how the map will be used. Urooj is a doctoral student in environmental sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Foundation Sponsor:
11th Hour Project (Schmidt Family Foundation)
Host Organization:
The Solutions Project
Adrien Salazar
Adrien is the Community Energy and Seed Democracy Intern at the Sustainable Economies Law Center. He is supporting the organizationâs seed democracy campaign, outreaching to farmer networks, designing a project to assess the seed saving, sharing, and seed production needs of farmers of color and immigrant farmers in California. He is also working with the organizationâs community energy program researching community-owned renewable projects and community engagement best practices to include in a legal guide to community-owned renewable energy. Adrien just graduated with his MEM degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Foundation Sponsor:
11th Hour Project (Schmidt Family Foundation)
Host Organization:
Sustainable Economies Law Center
Whitney Smith
Whitney is working on creating a community fact sheet on the Clean Power Plan in an effort to make this regulation more understandable and digestible to support community advocacy efforts. She will also under-take a GIS mapping project on methane exposure. Whitney just completed her Master’s degree in Environmental Justice at University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources & Environment.
Foundation Sponsor:
New York Community Trust
Host Organization:
WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Nancy Toure
Fellowship Year:
2016
Nancy assists the Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at Earthjustice operationalize the successful execution of organization-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals. As part of Earthjustice’s Brown Bag Presentation series she provided training to clerks and interns on the history of race and gender in the environmental movement. Nancy attends Northeastern University for graduate school where she concentrates on race and ethnic relations and environmental sociology.
Foundation Sponsor:
11th Hour Project (Schmidt Family Foundation)
Host Organization:
Earthjustice
Teona Williams
Teona is conducting research on African Americans’ attitudes towards urban parks in Flint, Michigan. The project will generate a report that will be used to help local organizations improve their outreach efforts with often-marginalized groups in Flint. Teona is entering her second year as a Master’s degree student in Natural Resources & Environment at the University of Michigan.
Foundation Sponsor:
C.S. Mott Foundation
Host Organization:
C.S. Mott Foundation
Michelle Yeh
As a Natural Resource Intern at the Environmental Defense Fund this summer, Michelle specializes in ecosystem restoration projects, including the Mississippi River Delta Restoration project. She was involved in analyzing National Marine Fisheries Service documentation about the alleged impacts of sediment diversions on fishery and marine mammal habitats. Michelle is also engaged in devising a restoration program for Jamaica Bay, aiding the EDF Climate Corps program with organizing New York-based fellow events, and researching sustainability efforts of the largest real estate companies in New York. Michelle is a second year graduate student at Columbia University studying Sustainability Management.
Foundation Sponsor:
New York Community Trust
Host Organization:
Environmental Defense Fund