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“I spent the past few days in Anchorage, Alaska—sometimes in the same room as John Kerry and Barack Obama—but the most incredible words I heard came from a cab driver,” says Leehi Yona ’16 in an opinion piece for the Responding to Climate Change website about her experience at the Aug. 31 Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Engagement and Resilience.

Yona is doing her senior fellowship project on Arctic climate policy, and traveled to Alaska with funding from a Stamps Leadership Scholar Award.