New England Team
Rouwenna Lamm, New England Educator
Rouwenna is a Kentucky native with a B.A. in astronomy and physics from Smith College in Massachusetts. During high school and college, Rouwenna was interested in teen education and held a variety of positions educating youth about health, science, outdoor-living, and community development. She started working on climate change during her senior year in college after attending Power Shift 2007. Inspired by the youth and adults at the conference, she joined the newly formed Massachusetts Power Shift and planned a climate conference for hundreds of students and community members. She then helped the group transform into a network of student climate advocates pushing for legislative and social change to address climate change.
After college, Rouwenna took a 9-month internship with the Union of Concerned Scientists where she was working to connect scientists with policy makers and the public to increase climate education and push for legislative action to address climate change. She also helped produce reports on the impacts of climate change in the Midwest. Rouwenna is excited to join the ACE team and continue educating and empowering youth to fight for their futures.
Alan Palm, Lead Educator - New England
Alan comes to ACE from BioTour—an environmental education non-profit that he co-founded with fellow ACE Educator Ethan Burke in 2007. Over the past two and a half years with BioTour, Alan has crisscrossed the United States dozens of times on a school bus powered by waste vegetable oil and solar electricity, giving presentations to thousands of students at colleges and K-12 schools about climate change, sustainability, and the youth movement.
Alan is a graduate of the University of Colorado, the Semester at Sea Institute for Shipboard Education and the National Outdoor Leadership School. He has worked as a volunteer with indigenous communities in Ecuador, a faculty advisor with the National Youth Leadership Forum and a youth sailing instructor on Cape Cod. While not hustling to save the world, Alan is usually kicking it with friends, climbing trees and eating PB&Js.
Julian Rodriguez-Drix, New England Educator
Julian Drix is an urban transplant in Providence, RI, but keeps his rural roots watered and strong. Julian believes that everything is interconnected, and manifests this truth with social movement networking that builds strong links between all issues of social and environmental justice. Julian was a co-founder of Rising Tide North America, and has worked in collaboration with local, national, and international organizations that work for climate justice and related issues.
Julian's born and raised in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, close to the Pennsylvania border. Julian and other upstate residents banded together to create the environmental justice group ShaleShock to address water safety, rural poverty, inequality, and the dangerous health and environmental impacts of "hydro-fracking" for shale natural gas.
Julian graduated with honors from Brown University with a degree in Africana Studies, a department that became like family and where he met his future wife. He has continued to live in Providence with his wife, where they work together to build community and strong social movements. He believes in vision, spirit and the brilliant power of youth.