Sophia Garcia, a rising sophomore at UC Berkeley, majoring in Environmental Economics and Policy, has joined the CCL Chapter Development team this summer. She has worked on scheduling meetings with Congress for CCL's lobby day, and is currently helping run the weekly CCL informational sessions.
Born and raised in Sacramento, California, Sophia has found solace in the outdoors for a long time, most specifically at the height of the pandemic. She has long since felt a call to protect the Earth and its natural resources by any means possible. Sophia feels immense comfort from connecting with nature and has only grown more passionate about the planet as she learns more about the climate crisis.
UC Berkeley Sophomore Sophia Garcia
This summer Sophia will be working on a CCL "passion" project where she will be creating a short segment for Citizens Climate Radio about her work at Berkeley on the Zero Waste team. The team works with restaurants and cafes around the school campus to help enforce the Single Use Plastic Elimination Policy by implementing reusable containers in their services.
Through CCL, Sophia hopes to learn more about climate policy and how to enforce changes through local government. In her free time Sophia enjoys cooking, baking, playing guitar, singing, bike riding, and arts and crafts. She’s also a huge Cage the Elephant fan, and is very much looking forward to finally seeing them in concert this summer!
We are thrilled to have someone so thoughtful and passionate with their work like Sophia amongst CCL’s interns this summer!