Mara Cat Dolan
(she/they) Mentor
Mara Dolan is an intersectional feminist, environmentalist, student and writer. At the Women’s Environment and Development Organization, she works on policy research, advocacy and coalition building among feminist and climate justice movements. She was born in Missouri and raised in central Illinois and traces early roots of her relationship to land to her grandparent’s farm and land and food justice and sovereignty work. She graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Environmental Justice from Brown University in Rhode Island, USA. Her journalistic work, focusing on climate justice and women’s rights, has been published in The Nation, Foreign Policy, Teen Vogue, Bitch Media and other outlets.
Favorite Genres/Mediums
Fiction, Journalism and Podcasts
Favorite Authors & Artists
Louise Erdrich, Naomi Klein, Octavia Butler