Our People

Executive Director

Born and raised in Frisco, Colorado, Jake (he/him) is an organizer, researcher, and Campus Climate Network co-founder. He recently graduated from George Washington University where he authored a report on GW’s ties to the fossil fuel industry and helped lead the Sunrise GW No Fossil Fuel Money campaign. Jake is currently located in Seattle, Washington on Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla land.

Managing Director

Alicia Colomer (she/her) is a recent graduate of New York University. While in college, she founded and led the Sunrise Movement NYU hub and successfully led the campaign to push NYU to divest from fossil fuels. Alicia was raised in Mexico City and Washington DC and is now preparing to move to California.

Engagement and Coaching Manager

MAK (they/them), is a former tenant union organizer with KC Tenants. MAK supported the development of the KC Tenants hotline, a base building campaign that resulted in over 3000+ new tenants, and co-led the organizing that led to KC Tenants winning Tenants’ Right to Counsel in December 2021. They are also a leader with Sunrise Movement KC and a former strategic consultant with Climate Emergency Fund. Based in Kansas City, MO, MAK is also a writer, an avid film photographer, a runner, and an explorer of new cuisines in their kitchen.

Research Co-Manager

William Kattrup (he/they), born and raised in Denmark, is a student at Brown University focusing on climate policy using computational methods. He is a researcher at Brown's Climate and Development lab where he has led multiple research projects on fossil fuel-sponsored climate misinformation. As an activist, he co-led Brown Sunrise's investigation into the university's ties with the fossil fuel industry. William spent their high school years at United World College in New Mexico.

Research Co-Manager

Maddie (she/her) is a student organizer from Evanston, Illinois. Together with other students at American University, she has launched and led Sunrise American University’s campaign for a Green New Deal on campus. Maddie wrote and researched the Green New Deal for AU Policy Platform and has previously conducted corporate and government accountability research with the goal of preventing violence against environmental and land defenders.

Partnerships Coordinator

Born and raised in upstate New York, Magnolia Mead (she/her) is a climate organizer, researcher, and student at American University. She led the student and youth mobilization for the March to End Fossil Fuels and is the president of AU’s hub of the Sunrise Movement. Her projects and writing analyze climate and social movements, climate impacts in Central America, and fossil fuel money and politics.

Communications and Narrative Coordinator

John Paul (he/him), or JP, is a student at American University. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, JP’s activism began after witnessing the government's response to a climate disaster leave his community members behind. Propelled into action, he has since organized for climate justice at institutional, local, and federal levels, engaging students, community members, unions, and elected officials along the way. Serving as Sunrise Movement’s chief national spokesperson and the campaigns director for his campus hub, JP brings strategy, training and communication experience to his role.

Canada Coordinator

Erin Mackey (she/her) is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto majoring in Political Science and Environmental Studies. She is an organizer with Climate Justice UofT where she’s pressuring her university to fully dissociate from the fossil fuel industry and adopt a Fossil Free Research Policy. Erin is also the Canadian Coalition Organizer for Campus Climate Network, and is passionate about building power and mobilizing communities to fight back against Big Oil and build a more equitable, sustainable and just world.

Green New Deal for Campuses Coordinator

Originally from Northern Virginia, Kelsey Mackert (she/her) is a student at American University studying environmental studies and sustainability. She organizes with Sunrise AU, pushing for a Green New Deal through coalition building.

Spring Coordinator

Leah (she/hers) is a student at Boston University who began organizing for gun control and climate justice in high school. The March For Our Lives chapter she ran was instrumental in getting a large gun control bill passed in the MA statehouse. She went on to call for divestment at NYU and organize a Climate Strike in Maine. She has used her experience on campaigns and in legislative offices to advocate for progressive climate policy. Aside from organizing, she loves rock climbing, sketch comedy, and bubble tea.

Reclaim Earth Day Coordinator

Amanda Campos (she/her) is a rising sophomore at Stanford University double majoring in Earth Systems and Public Policy. Born in the iconic city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she moved to the 20-million-people, skyscrapers-filled São Paulo when she was 3 years old and then to South Florida when she was 13. She is an active leader in the Coalition for a True School of Sustainability as well as part of Students for a Sustainable Stanford. She dreams of going to law school to study environmental law and advance science-based policy at the federal government level.

Reclaim Earth Day Coordinator

Annika Weber (she/her) is a freshman at Pomona College in Southern California and calls Seattle, Washington home. She is also an organizer with Divest Claremont Colleges & 5C Environmental Justice, 350 Washington, and previously Sunrise Movement Seattle. Annika loves the energy of youth movements but is especially drawn to intergenerational teams. She is interested in sound and just public policy, political philosophy, environmental and scientific history, and ecology.

Reclaim Earth Day Coordinator

Trey McCallister (he/him) is a Sophomore at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) majoring in Sustainable Design. Born and raised in the Chicagoland area, he is an organizer with Students for Environmental Concerns at UIUC where he’s pressuring his university to fully divest from the fossil fuel industry. Trey is passionate about building strong relationships with others to further our collective fight. He also enjoys photographing candid moments, biking around towns, hiking, and thrifting.

F&O Committee Member

Chelsey Gilchrist (she/her) is native Ohioan and a second-year at The Ohio State University, where she studies Economics and Statistics. In addition to her work with Campus Climate Network, Chelsey organizes with the campus divestment campaign.

F&O Committee Member

Jeremy Liskar (he/him) is from Chicago and is completing his masters degree in public administration at The George Washington University. As an undergraduate student, he co-founded Sunrise GW, led its successful fossil fuel divestment campaign, and launched one of the first fossil free research campaigns in the country. He currently works at The Climate Reality Project as Legislative Coordinator, helping lead legislative, regulatory, and implementation advocacy efforts at both the federal and state level.

F&O Committee Member

Sam Gee (he/him) is from London and is a second-year undergraduate Natural Sciences student at the University of Cambridge, UK. Having campaigned throughout his teens both with Friends of the Earth and as part of the global school strike movement, Sam is now an organizer with Cambridge Climate Justice, alongside his work with Campus Climate Network, which he has been involved with since its inception.

F&O Committee Member

Amanda Campos (she/her) is a rising sophomore at Stanford University double majoring in Earth Systems and Public Policy. Born in the iconic city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she moved to the 20-million-people, skyscrapers-filled São Paulo when she was 3 years old and then to South Florida when she was 13. She is an active leader in the Coalition for a True School of Sustainability as well as part of Students for a Sustainable Stanford. She dreams of going to law school to study environmental law and advance science-based policy at the federal government level.

Advisory Board Member

Akaraseth (he/him) is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford focusing on climate risks and sustainable finance. He is also a research affiliate at the University of Cambridge and University College London in sustainable finance and energy access, respectively. Alongside his research, Akaraseth is a trustee at Engineers Without Borders UK and a member of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Environment Programme (UNEP), and Human Rights (UN OHCHR) Youth Advisory Group on Climate Justice in the Asia-Pacific.

Advisory Board Member

Geoffrey (he/him) grew up in the UK and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. His research focuses on the history of climate disinformation and propaganda by fossil fuel interests. He has been investigating – and campaigning against – Big Oil’s corporate capture of academia since 2015. He is proud to support Fossil Free Research in defense of universities’ unique capacity to confront the climate crisis, which is being undermined by the exploitation of scientists as pawns of Big Oil propaganda.

Advisory Board Member

Ilana Cohen (she/her) is a co-founder of Fossil Free Research and lead organizer of Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, as well as a freelance climate journalist and contributor to The Nation. As a senior and Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard University, Ilana studies Social Studies and Philosophy with a focus on the ethics of climate change. She is also an Advisory Board member of the Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative and is originally from Brooklyn, New York.

Advisory Board Member

Maria (she/her) is Ramapough Lenape Munsee, Deer Clan tribal member and Elder. Professionally, Maria has been engaged in teacher preparation and professional development for twenty-two years. She is currently a professor of education in Providence, Rhode Island at Rhode Island College. Prior to joining the faculty at Rhode Island College, Maria was an industrial chemist and applications development engineer. Maria is an alumna of the U.S. Department of State Fulbright Hays program. One award supported study in Brazil in 2011 and a second award supported study in Poland in 2018. Maria earned her B.A. degree in chemistry and M.A. in physical science at Rhode Island College. She earned her doctorate in Educational Studies at Lesley University in Boston, Massachusetts, where she was an American Educational Research Association and National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellow.

Advisory Board Member

Navraj Singh Ghaleigh (he/him) is a law professor at Edinburgh Law School where he has worked on climate law for 15 years. Working with CSOs, practitioners, governments and others 'in the field' is a big part of his life, and he is excited to be a part of advancing CCN’s goals.

Advisory Board Member

Tina Shull (she/her), PhD, is Director of Public History at UNC Charlotte. She is the author of "Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance," and has been named a Soros Justice Fellow for her work in immigrant justice movement-building. A leading expert in climate migration and climate change education, Shull is the creator and curator of award-winning public memory projects "Climate Refugee Stories" and "Climates of Inequality: Charlotte." She is also a Climate Reality Leader, a National Geographic Explorer, and an Advisory Board member of Bhumi Global, an organization guided by Hindu principles to address the triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

Advisory Board Member

Gracie Brett (she/her) is an organizer and former co-Director of Divest Ed. She started climate justice work as a student organizer with Fossil Free American University. Her work is focused on dismantling colonialism and capitalism in service of collective liberation. Gracie also spends her time meditating, creating subversive art, and caring for her loved ones.

Advisory Board Member

Sidney Miralao (she/her) has roots in Manila, Philippines and in Northern Virginia, and is currently the Youth Engagement Manager at The Climate Reality Project where she supports the leadership of students and young people across the US. She first got involved in organizing as a student at William & Mary where she joined Dissenters, a youth anti-militarism organization organizing the next generation to reclaim our resources from the war industry. Sidney continues to organize with Dissenters with a focus on training and leadership development. Outside of organizing, Sidney enjoys a good book, swimming and hiking, and a quality matcha latte.