Picturing My Climate Future
High Schoolers View Their World to Come
"Wonderful!"
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Emily Brearly
Founder & CEO, Solution 42
"Love it!"
Anne-Therese Gennari
Founder & CEO,
The Climate Optimist
"Fabulous!"
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Sarah Pilla
Emmy-Winning Journalist
Spectrum
"Awesome!"
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Alayna Van Dervort
Founder & Executive Director,
The Big Wild
"A very worthwhile initiative!"
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Mark Tarcek
Former Chief Executive Officer
The Nature Conservancy
Supported by a grant from The Zain Jaffer Foundation
Teaser about the 2023 Maine pilot
for the upcoming documentary
about the national program now underway
Bay Area participant, 2025
Youth Have More Stakes in the Climate Crisis. Don't Ignore Them.
An op-ed by supporter Zain Jaffer.
Seeing for Ourselves equips and trains marginalized individuals to take control of their own public narrative by documenting their lives photographically.
The practice is known as "participatory photography."
The views of today's teens have not been taken nearly as seriously as those of their elders in the national conversation around climate change—yet they have
the most skin in the game.
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Seeing for Ourselves first served New York City housing project residents, then brought its programming
to New Yorkers on probation.
Collaborate with us by teaching a class, hosting an exhibit, or providing programming
in a new locale.
