Michelle Angkasa
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About Michelle Angkasa
Michelle Angkasa (she/they) is a final year Environment and Business student at the University of Waterloo. Michelle began her journey as a climate justice activist in 2019 with the Green New Deal-focused youth-led group, Our Time, and organized throughout the pandemic for a Just Recovery. Since then, they have worked both within and outside institutions to push for climate justice. Michelle has run as a Green Party of Ontario candidate and is currently co-chairing the divestment group Fossil Free UWaterloo, in addition to volunteering as a Regional Organizer at the Climate Reality Project Canada. Currently, Michelle’s efforts are focused on local and campus-level climate advocacy.
United by fear and rage, UWaterloo students stand up for climate justice
As a student leader at the University of Waterloo, I have seen first-hand the rising fear and anxiety my peers experience regarding the present realities and the future of our communities and the planet.
Six years later, Fossil Free UW gains a major win. What now?
The University of Waterloo’s decision to recognize the role of the fossil fuel industry in perpetuating the climate crisis is a strong step in the right direction, write UW students Michelle Angkasa, Petra Duff and Guy Brodsky.