Lydia Samuels is a Master of Public Health student at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she’s concentrating in Climate and Health. Originally from Jamaica and now based in New York, Lydia graduated from NYU with a degree in Global Liberal Studies and Global Public Health. Her passion for the intersection of climate and health has taken her through roles at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, NYU’s ISEE Lab, and the CDC’s John R. Lewis Scholars Program. She also represents youth voices as an ambassador to the Archipelagic and Island States Forum and as a Caribbean rep for World Youth for Climate Justice. Lydia is especially interested in global health equity, policy, and community-based research. Outside of public health, she’s a poet at heart and once co-directed a documentary in Ghana spotlighting artists who transform plastic waste into visual art. She’s excited to keep building bridges between science, art, and advocacy.