Samantha’s project focuses on using public health data to advocate for carbon pricing initiatives to reduce global climate change outcomes and improve air quality, while networking environmental action groups, academics, legislators and scientists to push for stricter emissions regulations on a state level. Samantha is a masters student in the Department of Environmental Health. Her research focuses on the alterations of pollutant cycling due to climate change impacts particularly in regards to persistent organic pollutants and associated public health outcomes. She is also a student intern in the Industrial Permitting Sector at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Samantha is active in many student climate advocacy initiatives including the Harvard Climate Leaders Program.
