Leah Blankenship is completing her final year in the social work graduate program at the University of Houston. With an undergraduate youth and social studies degree, Leah has worked in nonprofit and educational settings. She desired to pursue further education after witnessing disparities in the communities she worked with. After living in Minnesota her whole life, Leah chose to move to Houston to broaden her lived experience. Since arriving, she has been fascinated by the new world around her, specifically the physical environmental differences between Houston and Minnesota. In the spring of 2024, she took an environmental justice course that lit a fire in her soul for climate justice, migration, and advocacy. Leah is energized by the work BCWK is doing and excited to join them on their mission of protecting the waters and people of the Houston region.