Staff

Leigh has been volunteering with CREW since 2018, both as an organizer for their annual Climate Interfaith Summit and member of a local CREW chapter in Somerville, MA. She’s had the honor of serving her community in many capacities – public education, songwriting and performance, community organizing, grants management, and even ecological landscaping. She feels most joyful and in flow when she gets to be creative, curious, and connected to nature, and when she can support others in accessing these as well. With her stellar teams at CREW, Leigh will be coordinating community engagement work for a Charles River Flood Model project, as well as a community participatory research study in downtown Boston, always with her eye and heart on ways to engage people authentically, equitably, and through mutual learning.  

Rachael Boyce, Climate Justice and Resilience Manager, [email protected] 

A queer feminist and Maryland transplant, Rachael relocated to Massachusetts to work as a pastry chef. Working in the hospitality industry for 12 years gave her the opportunity to work alongside and learn from the hardest working individuals she has had the privilege to meet. It was specifically working with undocumented communities navigating exclusionary immigration policies that she was inspired to pursue graduate work focused on grassroots organizing and proactive policy solutions that prioritize community resilience. Her research and activism has focused on the intersectional impact of the housing and climate crises on Boston communities and she worked with the Boston Climate Action Network on their campaign to increase funding for decarbonization in environmental justice communities. A systems-focused thinker, Rachael believes in the power of collaboration to address the intersectional impact of mounting crises including but not limited to housing insecurity, climate change, and energy burden.

Lexi Lafferty, CREW Community Engagement Intern, [email protected]

Lexi is originally from Delaware and recently moved to Medford. She is currently pursuing a master’s in urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University. Lexi has worked on environmental justice movements, floodplain management and policy research, and urban farming and food insecurity in the Mid-Atlantic region before joining CREW. In her free time, Lexi likes to read, bake, and hike.

Tasnim Khanom, BFP Community Engagement Intern, [email protected]

 Tasnim is a sophomore at Boston University studying political science. She is     passionate about environmental justice and working on local policy.

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