Sarra Tekola

Sarra Tekola, messaging research intern, will be working on sustainability and climate change messaging strategies. Sarra graduated from the University of Washington, where she studied environmental science and terrestrial resource management. She has conducted three research projects specifically on climate change communication, ranging from surveying to find the perspective of communities of color and those with low-incomes in South East Seattle with Got Green, to working with conservatives in rural communities in Indiana through Purdue University. She is on the climate justice steering committee of Got Green and also works part-time in Councilmember O’Brien’s office. In her free time she likes to scuba dive in the cold Puget Sound. In one year she will start her Ph.D. program in Sustainability at Arizona State University.