Sharon Hanshaw became a climate change advocate and leader for her community after Hurricane Katrina destroyed her house, workplace and community in Mississippi. After that, she gathered with other women to think of how to recover from the damage and became the director of Coastal Women for Change, a NGO created to foster economic empowerment and recovery, training for jobs and climate change resilience. In this interview, she tells us more about this process and how she has been trying to raise awareness in the communities and also with politicians about how climate change hazards increases the likelihood of natural disasters, which affects poor communities the most. Photo credit: Liliana Rodriguez/Oxfam America.
