Nancy Metzger-Carter is the Sustainability Curriculum Coordinator at Sonoma Academy in Santa Rosa, CA and the Education Leader with Schools for Climate Action. She uses the climate resolution process as a teaching tool for high school students and her students run day-to-day operations for Schools for Climate- including monthly newsletters, website/social media, speaking engagements and national outreach to schools and education sector organizations. Nancy and her students worked with Rep Barbara Lee’s office in 2019 to draft the House Resolution 574 in Support of Teaching Climate Change in Schools. Her students have participated in over 55 meetings with congressional offices urging bold climate action. Nancy completed her Masters in Education at Prescott College where she focused her research on effective sustainability education. She has been recognized as an Educator of Distinction and received recognition through the National Association of Independent Schools for her program work at a Leading Edge School for Environmental Sustainability. She has been featured recently in articles on climate education in Bloomberg Green and Mashable. Nancy lives with her husband and two children in northern California. Nancy works with Schools for Climate Action because “As an educator, I am a mandated reporter- meaning that if I see harm to students I am obliged by law to report it. I see the harm of the climate crisis on my students each day- whether through fleeing another wildfire or grappling with climate anxiety. By speaking up as an educator I hope to normalize the need for bold, systemic climate education within the K-12 school system.”

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