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  • Holly Hummel (she/her)

    Community Coordinator, The School For Field Studies
  • CEE-Change Fellow
  • 2023
Panama

Holly is a community coordinator working to ensure study abroad students’ learning and research are community-focused and community driven. 

About Holly

Holly (she/her) holds an MA degree in Environmental Studies from Prescott College. She has lived and worked in the Bocas del Toro region since 2013. From 1999 to 2001, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer living and working in the Isla Popa Dos community. Her expertise and strength lies in community relations and building bridges between community partners, non-profit organizations and local and national agencies.

About Holly’s Community Action Project

Holly’s community action project, called Brazadas Por el Océano, will bring together ocean sports enthusiasts and environmental groups to Playa Istmo on Isla Colón with the goal of fostering knowledge about the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals 13 (Climate Action) and 14 (Life below Water). Her project will focus on educating the general public about climate change and its effects on the ocean through participation in ocean sports and interacting with local environmental groups. Holly seeks to engage the local community in civic action so they can advocate for solutions to climate change problems in the Bocas islands.