"My dad's a pilot, so I've had a passport since I was born. I've traveled all over the world, been to so many places, and had the opportunity to see so many different cultures. And I think that's one of the things that really cemented my interest in international exchange and international travel, just having the opportunity to do so. It's really shaped who I am.
Now I'm triple majoring in international relations, economics, and environmental biology. it's impossible to have sustainable conversations around international relations without understanding economic development, but also the environment.
Something like 95 percent of the forests are protected by indigenous people, and yet they're never the ones that are highlighted. Their voices are never heard. Governments don't listen to what they have to say. And instead, I feel like the view that we're given about climate change is that some scientist in a lab is going to stop the polar ice caps from melting and save the polar bears. But that's not actually what it is. There are so many different cultures that are doing so many things for environmental activism and to prevent climate change. And if we learned more about that and we were willing to change the systems that we use to perhaps systems that might be better and more beneficial, that would really help with... saving the planet! "
-- Undergraduate Student, Economics, Environmental Biology, and International Relations
