Soomin Han

Driven by her passion for climate justice and lived experiences, Soomin engages in climate work with a focus on intersectionality, youth engagement, community care, and gender equity. She received a Bachelor of Environmental Studies with a focus in policy and law at the University of Manitoba and a Masters in Public Policy from McGill Max Bell School of Public Policy. Soomin has been involved as a SPECTRUM Student Fellow since Fall 2019. 

Soomin has worked with various environmental and justice-oriented non-profits, serves on the board of directors for The Starfish Canada, supported championing climate justice and gender equity on Parliament Hill as a GreenPAC parliamentary intern, and was named Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25. Her research interests center and contribute to supporting young people as decision-makers and building capacity/mobilizing to develop community-led intersectional policies in both local and international policy spaces for a more equitable and climate-resilient future.