Sarra Tekola is a climate justice activist and PhD student in Sustainability at ASU. She works in Dr. Scott Cloutier's Happiness and Sustainability Research Lab as well as the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment (CBIE) with Dr. Mar
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Sarra Tekola is a climate justice activist and PhD student in Sustainability at ASU. She works in Dr. Scott Cloutier's Happiness and Sustainability Research Lab as well as the Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment (CBIE) with Dr. Marco Janssen, a transdisciplinary lab that works to understand governance, human behavior and institutional arrangements within social-ecological systems. Ms. Tekola is studying how climate change is a symptom of a larger systemic issue embedded in our culture. She has been interviewed on Democracy Now and Rolling Stone and was named as one of Outside Magazine’s 30 under 30 for her activism. She graduated from the University of Washington with a bachelor of science in Environmental Science and Terrestrial Resource Management where she did research on climate change with an interdisciplinary focus ranging from wildlife biology, ocean acidification, hypoxia, public health, carbon cycling and social sciences.
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