Environmental justice advocate Peggy Shepard will deliver the keynote address at Columbia Climate School’s inaugural Class Day ceremony on May 13.

In September, 90 students will begin their orientation for the M.A. in Climate and Society Program, the first degree program offered through Columbia’s Climate School.

With a background in artificial intelligence, she wants to explore how to utilize computational tools to study and communicate climate science.

She’s studying climate through a lens of intersecting social and environmental issues.

He wants to help prevent future generations from suffering from the climate crisis.

She helped to draft a national climate change policy in her home country.

She wants to help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change.

Xuan is part of the first class of Climate and Society students who will graduate from the new Columbia Climate School.