​ABOUT

Sarina Cooper is an avid environmentalist, photographer, and recent graduate of the University of Virginia in with majors in Global Environments & Sustainability and Spanish Linguistics. Her thesis explored the unique challenges that women and girls in the Northern Triangle region face as a result of climate change and water stress.

 

During her undergraduate career, Sarina spent over a year and a half working on the Innovation Station program in the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State, where she focused on problems at the intersections of gender and climate change and uplifting the women finding their solutions. She is committed to understanding and communicating the unique and disproportionate challenges that women and girls around the world face from the climate crisis.