Featured Woman in STEM: Sarah Myhre
Dr. Sarah Myhre is a climate scientist, science communicator, and environmental justice activist, perhaps best known for her feminist approach to climate change mitigation. She’s the founder and Executive Director of the Rowan Institute, a non-profit focused on climate change leadership, and a founding board member of 500 Women Scientists, a “grassroots organization started by four women who met in graduate school…committ[ed] to speak[ing] up for science and for marginalized communities in science.” In 2017 she was declared one of the “Most Influential Seattleites” by Seattle Magazine.
Dr. Myhre at the university of washington, seattle (Image Credit: Seattle Magazine)
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Dr. Myhre earned a B.S. in Marine Biology from Western Washington University in 2006, and a Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California, Davis in 2014. Her area of expertise in graduate school was paleoceanography: studying conditions of the oceans in Earth’s geologic past. Dr. Myhre was a senior fellow at the climate change organization Project Drawdown, where she researched the decline of greenhouse gases in the ocean, and served as a research associate in Oceanography at the University of Washington.
Sarah Myhre runs a personal website to share and promote her work, and is a bold and outspoken writer and public speaker. Some of the articles she’s written include pieces like “Why Women’t Climate Leadership is Vital” and “Yes, Climate Action is a Moral Issue.” One of her key issues is encouraging women to take leadership on climate change action, and advocating for including human experiences and empathy in discussions on climate change.
Watch her Tedx talk on why STEM needs feminism, here:
