Graduate Research Assistant, Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing
Graduate Student Scholar
Roxanne Cohen is a graduate research assistant with the Partnership for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing project led by Kate Tilleczek (Faculty of Education). She is a PhD candidate exploring meaningful education with young people choosing to take on the heightened responsibility of the crises we call climate change. Passionate about transformative learning spaces that center desirable futures, Roxy co-founded Rooted and Rising – a new teaching collective and certificate program in Climate Leadership that empowers youth to re-imagine and co-create thriving and just futures(now) in a supportive intergenerational network.
Themes | Planetary Health |
Status | Alum |
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