Английская Википедия:Christine Nieves

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Christine Nieves is a Puerto Rican community organizer and climate change activist. She is the founder of Emerge Puerto Rico, a community redevelopment non-profit.

Nieves focuses on building community resilience before and after environmental disasters, such as Hurricane Maria in 2017 and the series of earthquakes in Puerto Rico in 2020.[1][2][3] Her organization, formerly called Apoyo Mutuo Mariana, provided free meals for a mountainous community that was heavily impacted by the storm.[4][5]

Education

Nieves attended the University of Pennsylvania for her bachelor's degree.[6] She later earned a master's degree at University of Oxford.[6][5]

Activism

Nieves emphasizes the importance of community and self-sufficiency when preparing for climate change, in part because of the lack of government assistance after Hurricane Maria.[1] Nieves has worked with "anarchist organizers" to accomplish greater community independence.[7][8][9] She also speaks about mental health and challenges that come after disasters.[3]

Nieves founded Emerge Puerto Rico, a "climate change leadership startup" and non-profit.[10] She gave a talk about her work toward community-based resilience at TEDMED in 2018.[11]

She is a 2020 Echoing Green fellow.[12]

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