Students Lobby in Washington

30 students from Cornell and 50 students from Ithaca College traveled to Washington D.C. last weekend for Power Shift, the first-ever national youth summit on the climate crisis run entirely for and by young people.

“What brought me to D.C. was the same reason that brought so many others — the recognition that this is the fight our generation has inherited, an understanding of the timeline that we have to act on, a feeling that enough is not happening and will not happen unless we act — and a feeling of hope and awe at the power students have when they organize,” said Katherine McEachern ’09, president of KyotoNOW!