M.Sc. student in Earth and environmental science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

AGU embraces the global community and welcomes leaders representing various identities, voices, and perspectives. List any identities, voices, and perspectives you would bring, including but not limited to nationality, regional representations, racial and ethnic backgrounds, and anything else you feel comfortable sharing.

Born and educated in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton area, I would bring a Canadian perspective if elected.

Volunteer experience that relates to this position:

I am currently volunteering on a number of committees at my home university (McMaster University), including serving as Treasurer for McMaster University’s School of Earth, Environment and Society’s Graduate Student Council as well as on the Graduate Student Association’s Events Committee and Finance Committee. I am also a co-chair of our union’s organizing committee, where one of our main goals is aimed at promoting student engagement and fostering an environment of inclusivity on campus.

The student and early career voices on the Council are critical to the future of Earth and space sciences. Describe a time when you used your voice to inspire others to advance a cause, mission, or goal.

A time I recently used my voice to help inspire others to advance a goal was during the Green Rights and Warrior Lawyers Inspirathon 2023: Business and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment event organized by the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the United Nations’s (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment, Dr. David Boyd, where myself and other participants from around the world examined case studies on business practices and their impacts on the environment taking into account human rights obligations in promoting a sustainable, healthy environment, which the UN is exploring as a fundamental human right; the case studies complemented the report titled “Business, planetary boundaries, and the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment” (A/HRC/55/41) presented by Dr. Boyd to the UN General Assembly as well as the UN Human Rights Council, with the intention of hoping to inspire more widespread sustainable, environmentally conscious actions by companies in the future.

Section affiliations:

Atmospheric Sciences; Biogeosciences; Cryosphere Sciences; Earth and Planetary Surface Processes; Global Environmental Change; Hydrology; Ocean Sciences; Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology; Planetary Sciences; Science and Society; Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology