Kristen Soares
Webinar Recap: Passing State-Level Food Policy
Food production uses up half of the Earth’s habitable land, and is responsible for nearly a third of global heat-trapping emissions. These emissions come from the growing, processing, transporting, storing, cooking, and disposing of the foods we eat every day,...
Dear Policymakers: Community Engagement is Critical for Climate Policy
The climate crisis is worsening. The world’s seven warmest years have occurred since 2014. In 2020, there were 22 disasters in the U.S. alone, costing over $1 billion each, the most on record and over triple the annual average since...
Webinar Recap: Disaster Resilience for All
The world is waking up to the devastating impacts of climate change and its increasingly prevalent disasters: the world’s seven warmest years have occurred since 2014; in 2020, there were 22 disasters in the U.S. alone costing over $1 billion...
An Inequitable Pandemic: How Environmental Racism Has Worsened COVID-19 in Communities of Color
The COVID-19 pandemic is an injustice that is intersectional at its core. The inequities associated with this crisis are innately tied to specific preexisting disparities in public health, workers’ rights, housing stability, and more, but one critical and commonly overlooked...
Webinar Recap: Rooting Environmental Justice Efforts in Community
Grassroots community organizing is and always has been at the heart of the environmental justice movement. In recent years, this organizing has led to state-level legislative successes across the nation, including expanding community engagement, developing equitable climate funding requirements, and...
SCPN Spotlight: Pooja Tilvawala on Centering and Empowering Youth in Climate Activism
All across the country, members of our State Climate Policy Network (SCPN) are fighting to make an impact on climate change in their communities. We have individuals in our Network from all 50 states, each experiencing climate change differently in...
Webinar Recap: Federal Climate Action’s Impact on States
After four years of environmental rollbacks and inaction on climate change, the tides have turned on Capitol Hill. Since Biden took office in January, we’ve seen a slew of climate initiatives and introduced policies, including an early Executive Order on...
Kristen Soares on Joy, Empathy, and Identity in Climate Work
Kristen recently joined the Climate XChange team as our newest SCPN Associate, get to know her and some of her goals in joining CXC! Tell us a bit about yourself. Hello! My name is Kristen Soares (she/they), and I am a soon-to-be...
