Amber Powell is joining CCL this summer as the Resilience and Education Intern working on the CCL trainings, ongoing resilience projects, reviewing educational content, and engaging others in meaningful conversations about resilience! Amber is from Wilton California, but now resides in Bulverde, Texas where she is a remote grad student at Texas Tech University.

Her studies surround human sciences and natural sciences in which she has focused on the experience of eco-anxiety and climate grief in climate work. Through her studies, Amber is hoping to learn more about how to help people through these experiences and bring awareness to climate efforts, even when it feels overwhelming.

In her search of ways to become involved in helping others experiencing climate grief, she stumbled upon CCL. She has found a connection with her local chapter, and has gradually learned more about what it meant to be involved and educated in climate advocacy.

This Summer Amber is feeling enthusiastic about the prospect of learning more about what it means to be resilient and support others in climate work. More specifically, she’d love to learn more about how to facilitate positive group sharing experiences of climate grief and ways of communicating key information about climate work resiliency.

Amber loves music. In her free time she is often singing, playing guitar, piano, or ukulele. She also enjoys reading, writing, growing plants, and hiking. Through her hobbies and studies Amber has found herself deeply interested in a variety of topics such as ecopsychology, music theory, positive youth development, ecosystem management, forestry, sustainable design architecture, and biodesign. We are so pleased to have Amber joining the team this summer!