My collaboration with Our Climate Voices

This is a social media post introducing my approach to working with the climate justice organization, Our Climate Voices. I take an intersectional approach to climate justice. See the post on our Instagram (18k+) or our Facebook.

Introducing our new Storytelling Fellow, Meg Perret! Meg is a scholar-activist committed to bringing intersectional feminism to the climate justice movement. She grew up near a state park in the San Gabriel Mountains of California where she developed a strong personal connection with foxes, deer, and other local animals. The climate crisis became personal when her family's home, and the nature reserve behind her house, were threatened by wildfires which were exacerbated by climate change. As an undergraduate and student activist at UC Berkeley, she radicalized on issues of queer community-building and eliminating sexual violence on college campuses. As a student in both conservation biology and women's studies, she made connections between the oppression of marginalized people and the exploitation of nature.

For Meg, intersectional feminism is a way of understanding how multiple interlocking forms of power and oppression structure our social world. Inspired by feminist environmentalists Vandana Shiva, Carolyn Merchant, and Donna Haraway, she seeks to reframe contemporary environmental problems as issues of social and environmental justice as a PhD candidate at Harvard University. She dreams of building a future free from violence and oppression of all kinds. In her free time, she enjoys spending time in nature and agility training with her rescue dog, Prince.