Conozca a la Comunidad de la Fundación Rose: Shreya Shankar
Each month we’re featuring a member of the Rose Foundation community. We hope that through these interviews, you get to know a little more about the dynamic people who make the Rose Foundation’s work possible. You are a part of the Rose Foundation community and we want to tell your story too! If you want to be featured in an upcoming newsletter, let us know by Contacto.
Shreya Shankar works at Rooted In Resilience, a long-time partner of the Rose Foundation’s Surgen nuevas voces program. Rooted in Resilience empowers communities to rise to the challenges of climate change. Their programs support local clean energy and urban farming, and train youth to prepare for the socio-economic effects of climate change.
Shreya Shankar of Rooted in Resilience continues to work with our Nuevas voces students in our Summer Academy and in our “Growing Justice” class at Emiliano Zapata Street Academy.
1. ¿Qué le llevó a la Fundación Rose?
Rooted in Resilience has been collaborating with the Rose Foundation over the last 3 years on Surgen nuevas voces‘s Summer Climate Justice Youth Leadership Academy, and on the year-round Growing Justice internship program!
2. ¿Qué es lo que más le inspira de la Fundación Rose?
Our shared values and vision of cultivating the environmental justice leaders of tomorrow and centering communities of color in planning for climate resilience is inspiring. We also love the Rose Foundation’s strategy of empowering grassroots organizations and youth to build a more resilient future!
3. ¿Qué hace cuando no trabaja con la Fundación Rose?
En mi tiempo libre me dedico a la escritura creativa: música, poesía, relatos cortos. También se me puede encontrar leyendo un buen libro, dando largos paseos y haciendo senderismo, o bailando hasta caer rendida.
4. ¿Cuál es tu animal favorito?
The falcon, for its incisive vision and speed. And because falcons are both cute and terrifying as predators. Fun fact: Female falcons are usually larger than male falcons.