Adah Crandall, American Climate Leadership Awards for High School Students 2024 Finalist
The following blog is a part of our American Climate Leadership Awards for High School Students 2024 Series.
Adah Crandall is among the American Climate Leadership Awards for High School Students finalists recognized at the American Climate Leadership Awards for High School Students Ceremony. Watch the broadcast.
17 year old, early high school graduate Adah is a climate justice organizer from Portland, OR who focuses on the intersection of climate and transportation, opposing the expansion of several freeways in the Portland Metro area and advocating for better public transit. She is currently on a gap year working full-time for the Sunrise Movement’s Green New Deal for Schools program, supporting hundreds of students around the country to run local climate justice campaigns.
Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards for High School Students Ceremony to honor winner Adah Crandall and the other ACLA finalists.
About the American Climate Leadership Awards
Launched in 2019, ecoAmerica’s American Climate Leadership Awards recognizes, rewards, and shares best practices on climate change advocacy and action nationwide. The Awards provide money, support, and recognition for real climate leadership. Individuals and organizations selected as semifinalists have achieved success in building meaningful public engagement and political resolve for climate action at local, regional, and national levels, in ways that are replicable and broaden participation and inclusion.
About ecoAmerica
ecoAmerica is a nonprofit moving society toward climate solutions by inspiring and empowering trusted national health, faith, and civic institutions and their millions of stakeholders across America visibly act and advocate. ecoAmerica programs include Climate for Health, Blessed Tomorrow, and Path to Positive, and the One Home One Future and Climate Rx campaigns. ecoAmerica.org