Lily is one of our Citizens Climate Radio interns this fall!

Lily Russian is currently a junior at Trinity College, majoring in Political Science with a minor in Environmental Science. From a relatively young age, Lily always knew she liked science, but as she grew older, she eventually attended The Island School during her junior year in high school, a 100-day semester program on the island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas. The program focused on sustainability and marine biology with many outdoor/wilderness components, and here was where Lily’s passion for science and the environment was sparked.

Lily is currently one of our Citizens Climate Radio interns this fall, and she is responsible for co-hosting podcast episodes, researching and interviewing guests, and contributing to post-production (music selection, producing transcripts, promotional materials). In this role, she hopes to learn more about climate change advocacy and podcast production. Lily’s role allows her to foster more education and awareness about the different climate change advocacy topics, and she gets to speak to people directly involved in the movement. CCL’s Citizens Climate Radio produces one episode per month, where they discuss a wide variety of different topics within climate change policy and advocacy, and this allows Lily to learn directly from these grassroots movements.

On campus, Lily is the Chair of the Greek Life Committee at the Trinity College chapter of the OneLove Foundation (a foundation that brings awareness to relationship abuse and teaches people about the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships), and the Chief Information Officer for the Executive Board of the Inter-Greek Council. In her free time, Lily really enjoys singing, cooking, and playing the ukulele. She has three dogs who are equally as passionate about climate change advocacy as she is. Lily is a compassionate and talented student who we are so glad to have joined us at CCL.