Taylor Mayes

Taylor is a senior, Environmental Studies, and Political Science double major at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. She is very passionate about black liberation and environmental justice, so those areas are where she has focused her studies. In the summer of 2017, she interned at CIRCA (The Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation) as a program assistant, and that summer, she was also involved with Hartford’s Climate Stewardship Initiative as a student intern. She conducts climate change research with her Professor Anji Seth as an independent study – with a focus on the impacts of climate change on the Northeast, United States. She is currently the Sustainability Sub-Committee Chair for Undergraduate Student Government here at UConn. Her favorite past time is spending time with her family and friends and playing volleyball!