How do sustainability, agriculture, and social justice intersect? Why does Kathmandu’s transgender community need new job skills? What does the power grid have to do with equity? These are just some of the questions that SIT alumni are responding to as changemakers in their fields.
SIT alum Amit Gerstein writes about his return to Nepal to help increase employment opportunities for vulnerable transgender communities, in which isolation and discrimination contribute to high rates of depression and suicide.
Union of Concerned Scientists staff member Colin Byer, a graduate of SIT’s Climate Change & Global Sustainability Global Master’s, sees the clean energy revolution as an opportunity to transform an electricity system that harms communities of color, Indigenous Peoples, and low-income communities.
IHP Food Systems alumna Adilene Sandoval of Bates College will explore trauma and anti-colonial, justice-informed healing models in six countries. Her research will inform Sandoval’s approach to a PhD program when she returns to the U.S.
SIT Ecuador alum Patrick Robinson returns to the Intag Valley, one of the world’s 25 “megabiodiverse” regions, to monitor water quality in villages threatened by mining. Local activists fear mining activity will damage the rare cloud forest ecology of their communities and annihilate traditional lifestyles.
