Frontier Fellow 2023-2024:
Marcella Kolpin
Title of Research Project: “Engaging Climate Vulnerable Communities in Public Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering”
Summary:
Build a model to collect data on climate vulnerable communities’ perspectives on solar geoengineering, which will help policy makers make justice-centered decision on if/how solar geoengineering should be pursued as a strategy to address climate change.
Marcella is a fifth year double major in Environmental Studies with a concentration in conservation science/policy BA, and Politics BA. She has a long history with environmentalism specifically in working with many different restoration projects over the past 15 years. Marcella has been involved with and studied environmental justice, climate action, human rights, and ecology. She has also worked within political activism as an intern for the Human Rights Campaign. After graduation, Marcella hopes to further focus on her career before applying to grad school by gaining job and field experience in positions relating to climate change activism and solutions or marine ecosystems and policy.