Today we're here with the kind-hearted Charlie Krouse fka Laura; A climate organizer and advocate for reproductive justice and disability rights. Charlie has multiple auto-immune diseases, a brain tumor, and Lyme disease, which she has likely lived with for 7 years undiagnosed before her diagnosis 3 years ago. 

Climate change is personal to Charlie because the tick that bit her, the Lone Star tick, in southern Oregon is not common to the Northern US but has expanded its territory due to climate change. Realizing this has put an urgent push on Charlie's advocacy work to pass policies that can help protect people's health here in the United States that are similarly threatened by the climate crisis.

Today we’re here with the thoughtful Alexia Leclercq, a French and Taiwanese 21 year old community organizer working at the intersection of climate justice and disability justice in Texas. Alexia is passionate about bringing awareness to the disproportionate harm that climate change causes people of color with disabilities, particularly mental disabilities, which are often overlooked even in disability justice spaces. Climate change is personal to Alexia because they have experienced how climate change grief, fear, and anxiety exacerbate disability. Alexia is a fierce advocate for people with disabilities leading in the climate movement and the wisdom that their communities have around effective advocacy.