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This month the Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions welcomes Clara Weybright ’20<\/strong> and Joseph Harder ’20<\/strong> as fellows for the upcoming year. The Climate Futures Fellowship Program is a year-long paid fellowship and provides the space and support for recent graduates to work on project proposals that align with the center\u2019s mission. In the past, the center has had creative and meaningful projects from fellows, including a podcast series titled Shifting Climates<\/em>. Current fellow Katie Isaac<\/strong> is working on Creation Care Action Plans for churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weybright is a recent 2020 graduate of EMU with a degree in environmental sustainability and minors in honors and English.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEnvironmental communication has always been at the forefront of my interests. I\u2019ve enjoyed working more directly in the sciences, but I\u2019ve always been most motivated by making the environment \u2013 particularly as it intersects with justice issues \u2013 compelling to everyday people. That\u2019s where this fellowship comes in!\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weybright will be based in the Mennonite Central Committee\u2019s Washington, D.C. office.  Last year she interned there as part of the center\u2019s Climate Advocacy Internship and \u201cabsolutely loved it.\u201d However, she left at the end of the summer wanting to do and learn more. She will be working closely with Tammy Alexander,<\/strong> who was her supervisor during the internship last summer. Alexander is the senior legislative associate for domestic affairs and a member of the center\u2019s oversight board.  Weybright says \u201csome of my favorite afternoons that summer were the ones where Tammy and I were walking to a meeting somewhere, and I could pester her with questions about her work and what makes advocacy so important.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her fellowship, Weybright will be focusing on \u201cfinding ways to connect communities with sustained political action surrounding climate change.\u201d Her project will include surveying congregations to \u201cassess understandings of what it means to do climate advocacy faithfully,\u201d and selecting some congregations that are \u201cinterested in committing to a long-term climate advocacy plan.\u201d She hopes that these congregations will be geographically, racially, and culturally diverse and is interested in utilizing her proficiency in Spanish to work with Spanish-speaking churches as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter engaging in advocacy training myself, I\u2019ll assist these churches in establishing sustained advocacy that\u2019s tailored to their specific community,\u201d she says. This will also include connecting them to local and existing grassroots organizing initiatives, as well as \u201chelping them identify and advocate their particular lawmakers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weybright will also be creating a climate advocacy resource that will be accessible from the CSCS website. She is also writing for The Appalachian Voice<\/em><\/a> and studying for the LSAT.  After this year\u2019s fellowship, she is planning on attending law school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harder, a native of Harrisonburg, is also a 2020 graduate of EMU and majored in interdisciplinary studies with a focus in music composition, an attempt to \u201croughly emulate a musicology major.\u201d Music has always been a big interest of his and is reflected in his project proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the coming year, Harder will be completing an analysis of environmental ethics in Mennonite hymnody. \u201cI am hoping [this project] will be personally meaningful due to the fact that it sits at the intersection of perhaps my three most active circles of thought \u2014 faith, music, and environment,\u201d he explains. \u201cEach of these elements is something I have grown up with a relationship to.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harder’s family is Mennonite. His parents are both from musical families and have engaged with music throughout their lives, and he was pushed both as a kid and now to \u201cthink actively on how to live sustainably.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, preparations for the new Mennonite hymnal are underway. Harder recognizes that his project might be too late to have an effect on the new hymnal, but hopes he \u201ccan offer a fresh perspective to emerge alongside it.\u201d His work over the coming year will \u201cgive people a critical lens through which to understand how Mennonite environmental ethics have arrived at their current position, the things we are doing well, and the ways the Mennonite community can improve its relationship to the environment \u2014 in hymnals and beyond.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only is his project important for the Mennonite church, but it also creates space for self-reflection as he moves into the \u201cbroader post-college world\u201d while trying to figure out who he is and where he belongs.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think there is something valuable to be learned through this sort of interdisciplinary approach,\u201d says Harder, \u201c a sort of intellectual ecotone, a crossroads between trains of thought that will potentially allow for some fruit that no train could have provided alone.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, Harder is the drummer of an indie soul band and also plays guitar, banjo, and piano. From gardening and farming to hiking to \u201cmapping out every road in the countryside surrounding Harrisonburg via bike,\u201d he likes spending time outside when he is not working on music. Currently, he has been enjoying the wineberries and huckleberries on several trails in the area. In the coming year, aside from working on his fellowship, Harder will be trying to learn to make good curry and helping family friends remodel an ancient and abandoned house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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