What drives four future climate leaders

This 200-acre Superfund site is contaminated with radioactive waste, byproducts of the Manhattan Project and nuclear weapons production. At Harvard, Jenkins kept pursuing the link between the environment and human rights. In 2022, Jenkins helped represent Harvard at COP27, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt. She remembered praying with them for a better future for all those adversely affected by exposure to radioactive waste. “That’s something I’ve thought about at Harvard,” Jenkins said.