About the Author:

Kimi Waite is yonsei fourth generation Japanese American and has received awards for her work in environmental education and social studies education. She is a public voices fellow on the climate crisis with The OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and has written about the intersections of race, education, and environmental justice for publications such as Ms. Magazine, Rethinking Schools, Grist, Cal Matters, The San Diego Union-Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Progressive. Kimi is a Civics Environmental Education Fellow with the North American Association for Environmental Education. She has an M.Ed. from UCLA and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Sustainability Education at Prescott College.

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Courtney Cook, PhD || Education Manager

William Tolliver, Jr || Education Assistant

This resource was created, in part, with the generous support of the Open Society Foundation.