Team - Amy Jiang
Currently finishing her Masters in Anthropocene Studies at the University of Cambridge, Amy is one of our youngest Trustees pursuing a career in climate policy and research, and has been engaging with issues surrounding the climate and ways to raise awareness since high school. Here, she organised the inaugural Geography Film Festival alongside UN Westminster, featuring six short documentaries and investigative pieces by indie producers about climate issues often obscured from having a mainstream media presence. Amy has also previously been a Young Trustee of YPTE for multiple years where she helped establish the essay competition '2000 Words to Change the World', which was supported by Eurostar and organised by YPTE!
Whilst doing her undergraduate at Durham in Geography, Amy wanted to take her passion and experience in environmental leadership to a new stage, becoming the President of The Ugly Fruit Group, a student led social enterprise tackling food poverty and food waste in the North-East of England. This required her to lead a team of over 50 people in saving leftover or unwanted fruit and veg and redistributing it to food banks across County Durham, alongside turning anything that was left over into delicious new preserves and jams. This project helped to save nearly 3000kg of fruit and veg being wasted, which is equivalent to nearly 4000kg of CO2 emissions and 600,000l of water! As a result of these accomplishments, The Ugly Fruit Group was recognised as the National Champion with Durham University for a leading student social enterprise in May 2023 AND 2024 by Enactus UK, and is still helping people in the North-East today!
Her current Masters research now tackles the national climate policy of the People's Republic of China, examining how publics test and interact with the production of knowledge for climate policy in the Anthropocene. Her hope is that not only could this assist in attempts at reaching a global cosmopolitan consensus on climate strategy through better understanding non-Western practices of knowledge production, but also sheds light on how embroiled science and policymaking are in social ideals and norms. Returning to her Young Trustee role after completing her undergraduate degree and now becoming one of the youngest Trustees, Amy hopes she can bring her new experience from leading The Ugly Fruit Group, alongside her volunteering work with new and inspiring communities to help raise awareness of the YPTE to a greater audience of passionate young people and teenagers and in doing so aid the rise of a more climate conscious generation! Her interests will focus on the mentoring scheme provided to the Young Trustees, as well as producing interactive and engaging climate content based off her own projects in conjunction with YPTE's aims to promote climate awareness and spearhead environmental literacy and interest in young people across the UK.
