The Way FORWARD: 2025 Children’s Environmental Health Day Youth Symposium
Students across New York State present their community-based work for local environmental justice.
Climate change and environmental pollution are causing preventable disease.
Resource-poor communities are unjustly impacted.
Youth leaders on the frontlines can lead us toward justice.
Part 1
Participants:
Blueprint Geneva (Finger Lakes)
“Fenceline Community Air Quality Monitoring”
Shelby Connor
Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition (Long Island, Capital Region, Central)
“Enhancing Rural Resources with Diversified Communication Strategies”
Myrah Galhotra
Cecilena Monge
Aryan Patel
Pranav Parlapal
BridgeUp Health (NYC)
“Air Pollution in NYC”
Elise Gregory
Part 2
Participants:
Rochester Ecology Partners (Finger Lakes)
“Environmental Health Ambassadors (EHA) Summer Program”
Kenya Davis
Yonkers Partners in Education (Hudson Valley)
“The Relationship Between Age and Climate Anxiety”
Kai Prophete & “Predicting Air Quality for Climate Justice” Helena Cruz
Children’s Environmental Health Center of the Hudson Valley
Lead in the Blood, Nothing on the Plate: Risks of Lead Exposure Among Food-Insecure Youth”
Catherine O’Brien
Moderators: Sena Knopf and Claire Parks
Ambassadors from Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition (Long Island)