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Asenette Ruiz (she/ella)
trubel&co
- CEE-Change Fellow
- 2025
Asenette is a facilitator and creative engineer bridging technology and community action for herself, others, and collectives. She focuses on environmental justice, particularly in the Gulf South and calls Houston home.
About Asenette's Community Action Project (CAP)
CivicScape is a platform helping students and teachers across the Gulf Coast explore environmental issues in their own communities—like flooding, heat, and pollution—using real data and maps. The idea is to make it easy for educators, even those new to geospatial tools, to bring local climate challenges into the classroom through interactive lessons and place-based activities. This project aims to give frontline communities the resources to better understand and respond to the environmental challenges they face.
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More About Me
What is your favorite memory of being in nature?
Anyone close to me will know I LOVE hammocking or being on a hammock outside. From memories of being a kid playing with my cousins trying to see which of us could do a full circle on my abuelita’s hammock to playing a kalimba in Tampa underneath palm trees with my partner when we needed rest, hammocking is my favorite nature memory.What is one fun fact people should know about you?
I love tea and plantitas (plants).What influential environmental book or author would you recommend other people read?
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Dr. Jessica Hernandez