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- 12/1: Welcome to Le Bourget
- “Everything I know and everything I love on this planet is just 2 meters above sea level.” – Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak
- 11/30: So Far, So Good
- “You are here today to write the script for a new future.” – U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon
- 11/29: We’ve arrived
Gabriella Palko
- Gabby is a senior Environmental Policy major at Colorado College. After serving as the greenhouse gas inventory intern, she is now the intern manager at CC’s Office of Sustainability. She is passionate about climate change, and is particularly interested in the role of industrial agriculture in the current environmental crisis. In the future, she hopes to play a major role in bridging the detrimental gap between science and politics, and become a leader in the climate world. When she’s not stressing out about the current state of the world, she enjoys backcountry skiing, fly fishing, and trying not to fall off her mountain bike.
- LinkedIn: Gabriella Palko
- Instagram: @gabriellapalko
Lily Biggar
- Lily is a senior Environmental Policy major and Global Health minor at Colorado College. She co-authored the college’s first State of Sustainability Report and serves as the Sustainability Intern for Residential Life. Lily deepened her interest in environmental issues while spending a semester studying in Copenhagen, a city often regarded as the “green capital of Europe”. She is pursuing a career in environmental consulting and corporate sustainability. Lily enjoys yoga, the outdoors, and Hugh Grant rom-coms.
- LinkedIn: Lily Biggar
Zach Pawa
- Zach is a junior Environmental Science major at CC. Having spent a semester studying sustainable farming in New Zealand, he is interested in organic food systems, and hopes to start a farm outside the surf shop that he co-founded in Cape Cod.
Elliot Hiller
- Elliot is a junior Environmental Policy major at CC.