Courtney Naquin is the Gulf Coast press secretary for Sierra Club and program manager and education coordinator for the Houma Language Project’s youth language internship program. They are also a Public Voices on the Climate Crisis fellow with Yale Climate Communications and the Op-Ed Project.

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