Women Make Their Mark In The Environmental Sciences

In this video we meet women of Western North Carolina, US standing for the Earth and their communities. Sheryl Bryan, is fisheries and wildlife biologist in North Carolina, has enormous love for ecology and is one of few women working in this male-dominated field. She explains that the conversion rate of women from ecology studies to full-time jobs is very poor. Katie Hicks, associate director at nonprofit Clean Water, encourages the local community to fight for their fundamental environmental rights. Judy Mattox, executive committee chair of WENOCA Sierra Club, speaks on her extensive work shutting down coal plants and trying to prevent a peaking gas power plant. We also hear from Melissa Williams, Senior Press Secretary for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, and Dayna Reggero, an environmental filmmaker working on project called “The Climate Listening Project.” Photo credit: Citizen Times