By Cecilia Timberg By the time I got on an Egypt-bound plane, I had sat through half a dozen risk mitigation meetings. The messaging was clear: don’t trust strangers, don’t get estranged from the group, it will all feel so strange. It was with this fear-forward attitude that I approached my first days in Sharm …
Swiss newspaper interviews CC student at COP27
The Swiss newspaper, Le Temps, features Mika Alexander '23 in an interview about youth involvement at COP27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TZVnqV91v4
CC students speak in press conferences at COP27
Mika Alexander '23, Mary Andrews '23, Cecilia Timberg '24, and Gracie Roe '25 speak at a press conference about storytelling based on the Talanoa Dialogue. Olivia Jacobson '22 and Mary Andrews '23 speak in a press conference about the Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education. Owen Brown '24, Reeve Schroeder '24, and Gracie Roe '25 …
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CC students with Jake, the mic runner for NYT Climate Forward
We appreciated Jake bringing us the microphone on many occasions so that we could ask questions to various panelists and speakers!
CC students with Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, President of NYT International
This photo marks the end of a three-day NYT event focused on conversations of climate action. We gained incredible insight and were lucky to be in the same room as some of the current leading minds in climate policy and action.
Creating Community at NYT Climate Forward
By Mika Alexander In all honesty, I was nervous walking into COP27. Despite knowing I would be engaging in an international space, I arrived hyper-aware of my position as a woman of color surrounded by high-level negotiators, many of whom are elder men. For context, I am pretty used to my existence remaining unacknowledged in …
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Our Voice @ COP27: Sustainable Development Goals
Cecilia Timberg, 24', Gracie Roe, 25' and Reeve Schroeder, 24' present on SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities During SDG 11's group presentation, Mika Alexander, 23', was asked to do an interview with a Swiss newspaper on the importance of youth voices in civil society. All 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals Within the space …
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The Fight Against Pathogens
Hi, I'm Melanie and I'm a Molecular Biology major! For the past three weeks I have been taking MB325 - Immunology, which has been taught by Dr. Olivia Hatton. This block has been super interesting and relevant towards our current climate! Although, learning about the immune system has required me to pay attention to a …
Week #1: Evolution is Resistance
Hello CC! My name is Hannah Baum, and I am a sophomore in Professor Karen Roybal’s Southwest Studies class, called Art, Power, & Resistance. The focus of our first week was art, embodiment, and tradition. Before starting to discuss the focus of the course, Southwest art, culture, and history, we spent two days discussing and …
If Information Created Democracy, Can Misinformation Destroy It?
"What we are seeing is death by a thousand cuts." -Maria Ressa In 2013, the Philippines became a trial-run for Facebook’s “Free Facebook” campaign, an effort to subsidize internet access for smartphone users. The campaign was heralded as a success; nearly 69 million Filipinos use Facebook today, compared to 29 million in 2012. Yet, as …
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