Meet the First Pope Francis Climate Justice Scholar
Submitted by
Marguerite Thompson
Alexa Santana, 17, of Boston, Massachusetts and senior at Fontbonne Academy, is Catholic Climate Covenant’s first recipient of the “Pope Francis Climate Justice Scholarship”.
Alexa got involved in climate work during her freshman year of high school when attending a youth climate march in New York.
“That was the first time I had been introduced to climate justice,” she said. “… I realized how important it was, through my work and my community work in Boston, surrounding budgets and allocations of resources, how climate affects different people, different communities, and especially communities with fewer resources. … After that, two of my friends and I got involved with Catholic Climate Covenant together and started the environmental club at my school.”
Learn more about climate justice and how you can get involved at climatecovenant.org