Amanda McCard

Amanda McCard is a senior from Burlington, Connecticut majoring in environmental studies and journalism. She is passionate about approaching environmentalism from as many perspectives as possible and loves to learn about different avenues of sustainability. She is currently in her third year as an intern at the UConn Office of Sustainability, where she contributes to the communications team and is involved in planning campus-wide sustainability events. She has written articles that have been published in the environmental publication Planet Forward, as well as the UConn Journalism Magazine. In her junior year, she was a director of Ecoposium, a student-run environmental symposium, and helped organize the Global Environmental Perspectives section of the event. She recently spent a semester studying in Sydney, where she learned about Australian environmental challenges and innovations. Amanda hopes to examine how rhetoric and storytelling can inspire change on local and global levels at COP29. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, creative writing, and yoga.