Mara Tu

Mara Tu is a junior Environmental Science and Urban and Community Studies student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Mara works at the Office of Sustainability as an intern and is an officer of EcoHusky and Student Farmworker Alliance where she wishes to spread her interests in conservation, communal energy, spread of ideas, social issues and climate and environmental justice. As a BOLD Scholar, Mara hopes to explore how climate change has and will affect the mental health of individuals and communities and how to work on climate issues productively. Over the summer, she interned at the C.S. Mott Foundation based in Flint, MI as their Environment Team intern where she learned about non-profit and philanthropy work and worked on research about climate migration from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras and local clean drinking water advancements. In her future, she hopes to continue mitigative and adaptive work that addresses climate and environmental effects on people and the ecosystems around us. She enjoys being self-reflective, being with those she loves, and learning as much as possible in her free time.