Isabel Kirsch

Isabel is a junior in Yale College studying Environmental History. Her academic work focuses on the social meanings assigned to forests and the human context of ever-intensifying wildfires in the American West. Guided by past work on political campaigns, Isabel is interested in taking an ethnographic, community-based approach to understanding the health and social consequences of the changing climate; she hopes to mobilize local lived experiences to encourage larger-scale policy change. On campus, Isabel works as a tour guide, competes with the Yale Club Triathlon Team, and coordinates undergraduate programming in the environmental humanities.