Climate Defiance has disrupted high-profile events in recent months, tangling with Pete Buttigieg, Joe Manchin, Amy Klobuchar, and Jennifer Granholm.
Author Archives: Nikayla Jefferson
Nikayla Jefferson is a political science graduate student at UC Santa Barbara, where her research focuses on the intersection of climate justice, the American environmental movement, democracy, and engaged spiritual traditions. She is interested in researching, writing, and living the questions related to what it means to be a human in this moment we call the Anthropocene.
Nikayla’s work has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Guardian, the Nation, and others. Her essay, "From the Hunger Strike, With Love," was selected for publication in the book “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility,” edited by Rebecca Solnit and climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua.
Nikayla previously worked for the Sunrise Movement and cofounded the San Diego chapter. She was an Op-Ed Project/Yale Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis and Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign California co-chair. She is a lifelong Californian without plans to leave unless life asks otherwise. Nikayla spends much of her time with Rainer Maria Rilke and her journal at the beach.
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