Michelle Angkasa
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.
There are good livings to be had in a clean economy
Our organization's mission is to present students with pathways to alternative careers that reflect their values.
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.
