Meet the Team
FOUNDERS
Emily Tianshi
Stanford 2025
Kyle Tianshi
Stanford 2028
LEADERSHIP
Leanne Fan
Grade 11
CO-PRESIDENT
Noah Lee
Grade 11
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Alex Battikha
Grade 12
CO-PRESIDENT
Katelin Sung
Grade 12
SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR
ENVIRONMENTAL AMBASSADORS
Renee Wang
Cornell 2028
"When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower." - Unknown
Sidor Clare
Grade 12
"But man is part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself." - Rachel Carson
Ainsley Jackman
UCLA 2025
"We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do." -Barbra Ward
Angela Fang
SDSU 2026
"We won't have society if we destroy the environment." - Margaret Mead
Emma Li
Cornell 26
"A gross (but somewhat accurate) oversimplification of climate change: it's real, it's bad, it's our fault, and we should probably start fixing it ASAP."
Katelin Sung
Grade 12
"We are living on this planet as if we have another to go to." - Terri Swearington
Jane Jackman
Grade 12
Samhita Pokkunuri
Grade 12
Sophia Weiner
Grade 12
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." -Robert Swan
"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved." -Richard Rogers
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” -Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
Hans Yang
Georgetown 2028
"This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension." - Winston Churchill
Hope Ferdyn
2026
"Even the smallest act can change our world."
Ryan Zhao
Grade 11
"Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us." - Bill Nye