People

Staff

  • Jake Lowe

    Executive Director

    Born and raised in Frisco, Colorado, Jake (he/him) is a senior at George Washington University studying Geography and International Affairs. He is a co-founder of Fossil Free Research and an organizer with the Sunrise GW no fossil fuel money campaign. Jake was previously a researcher and student organizer with UnKoch My Campus. Contact him at jlowe@fossilfreeresearch.org.

  • Alicia Colomer

    Managing Director

    Alicia Colomer (she/her) is a student organizer at New York University. She founded and led the Sunrise Movement hub and led the fossil fuel divestment campaign at NYU. Alicia was raised in Mexico City and Washington DC. She is now based in New York City.

Steering Committee

  • Chelsey Gilchrist

    Steering Committee Co-Chair

    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 Fossil Free Research, Chelsey organizes with the campus divestment campaign.

  • Jeremy Liskar

    Steering Committee Co-Chair

    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.

  • Daniel Barszczak

    Steering Committee

    Daniel (he/him) studies Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at Tufts University and—alongside Fossil Free Research—organizes with Tufts Climate Action. He is originally from the Bay Area. In his free time, Daniel loves to bike and explore nature!

  • Sam Gee

    Steering Committee

    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 Fossil Free Research, which he has been involved with since its inception.

  • Amanda Campos

    Steering Committee

    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

  • Akaraseth Puranasamriddhi

    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.

    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.

  • Geoffrey Supran

    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.

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    Ilana Cohen

    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.

  • Maria Ellen De Freece Lawrence

    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.

  • Navraj Singh Ghaleigh

    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 FFR's goals.

  • Tina Shull

    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.