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Iris Zhan (They/Them)

Iris Zhan (They/Them)

[Not answering DMs!] Global climate justice organizer + strategist committed to helping other activists | Social justice advocate | Digital community builder | Youth researcher | Wellesley College

发布日期: 2024年11月1日

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• Hi wonderful people! You can check out my Tanner presentation on my summer research with The Global Youth Storytelling & Research Lab directed by the amazing Mark Ortiz. Our academic research article on Fridays For Future Digital's strategies and lessons for youth climate + digital organizing will be published soon in the Social Movement Studies journal. For now, you can view my presentation that reviews the premise of our research as well as the interactive storymap the complements it: https://lnkd.in/gU73ZSQD...click to read full post
• Thank you everyone for coming to my presentation at Wellesley College's Tanner conference, my first research conference presentation. You can check out the interactive storymap website that displays all of Fridays For Future Digital's campaigns here: https://lnkd.in/eKpbHs-H with my full Tanner presentation coming soon!!
• Woo! Wellesley College's Tanner conference is tomorrow (or today depending on when you see this post) Tuesday October 29! If you're a Wellesley student who happens to see this, you can catch my presentation "Archiving Youth Digital Climate Organizing: Examining FFF Digital" during the panel called "Letting More Voices in: Community, Advocacy and Paths to Change" during session 3 from 1:30-2:40pm in SciL035. I hope to see you there!...click to read full post
• I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Research Assistant at Wellesley College! I will assist Professor Rutherford in Wellesley College's sociology department with research on children's involvement in environmental activism through literature review, library database searches, and scholarly article summaries....click to read full post
• Made By Us is accepting applications for the 2025 Civic Season Design Fellowship starting October 1st! This opportunity allows young people (ages 18-30) to help co-design?Civic Season, a national initiative that promotes civic engagement, running from Juneteenth to July 4th. Fellows contribute 4 hours weekly from January to July 2025, receive a paid stipend, and work with cultural institutions. No prior experience is needed—just passion! Applications are due November 1, 2024. More info here: https://lnkd.in/gbhe6cg9
• I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Contributing Writer at The Wellesley News! I’ve been writing for the arts and culture, and features sections. Writing for the news has been one of the most joyful experiences at Wellesley College this semester....click to read full post
• I'm excited to announce I'm going to be presenting at Wellesley College's Tanner Conference, on my summer research I did for The Global Youth Storytelling & Research Lab on the impact of Fridays For Future Digital on the youth climate movement: https://lnkd.in/gU73ZSQDl...click to read full post
• For my “Reading Climate Through Media” comparative media studies class at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I created a climate action communications presentation targeted at a niche specific audience of a community I’m part of, and I chose music fans as an avid music fan myself.....click to read full post

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