José Reyeros Sánchez

Student Fellow

Title

Undergraduate

Department/School

Geography

Faculty

Arts

University

UBC

Hola! I am a Latinx settler with the privilege of studying how our human systems intersect with the climate emergency. I am interested in understanding the systems of oppression that reinforce the inequities and wrongs in our society to disrupt them. My area of study and experience provides me with tools for community based solutions for climate justice. I am particularly interested in circularity and decolonization at a systems level. Being part of the C&NE undergraduate cohort I am excited to provide energy and perspective for transformative systems change.

Primary Recipient Awards

José Reyeros Sánchez – Catalyst Fellows – 2022

The Wall Catalyst Student Fellow cohort will first come together to engage in the online, interdisciplinary Facing Human Wrongs course and subsequently work together on a number of public-facing projects.

The course content touches upon systemic, historical and ongoing violence, unsustainability, our complicities in social and ecological harm, and our tendency to address complex problems, such as biodiversity loss, food insecurity, economic and political crises, and the potential for social and environmental collapse, with simplistic solutions. The course requires students to be willing to be uncomfortable and to have their perspective challenged.