Video Highlights from the First CUNY-Wide, Student-Centered, Community-Led Climate Justice Summit

The first-ever CUNY-wide, student-centered, community-led Climate Justice Summit welcomed more than 400 attendees to the CUNY Graduate Center on February 25th, 2025.

The event was geared toward CUNY students who wanted to learn more about the NYC Climate Justice Hub and how to support the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA) and their coalition partners in the fight to build a more just city.

During the event, participants learned about the history of CUNY student activism, the historical and present-day struggles for environmental and climate justice through the work of NYC-EJA, its member organizations and coalitions, and the collaborative work being done across several CUNY campuses with NYC-EJA member organizations from the Bronx (Nos Quedamos and The Point CDC), Brooklyn (El Puente and UPROSE), and Manhattan (The Brotherhood Sister Sol and GOLES (Lower East Side) through the NYC Climate Justice Hub.

This video compiles the highlights of the Summit, our most significant event to date. You can find out more in our event recap here. Additionally, the video serves as an invitation to continue the fight for climate justice within our communities. Below, we share two opportunities available to all CUNY students who wish to become more involved in climate justice action.

Open Paid Opportunities

If you are a CUNY student interested in organizing to advance climate justice, we have two PAID opportunities to work with the Hub! The Climate Justice Action Fellowship and the NYC Climate Justice Hub Internship Program connect CUNY students directly with NYC-EJA and its member organizations, providing hands-on experience in addressing climate justice issues, including energy, the just transition, waste management, transportation, and more. You can find more information here .

Launched in September 2023, the NYC Climate Justice Hub is a partnership between the City University of New York (CUNY)—the nation’s largest public urban university—and the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA)—a coalition of grassroots organizations from the city’s most environmentally burdened neighborhoods who have led the fight for environmental and climate justice in NYC since 1991. Operating out of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Hub unites CUNY and NYC-EJA to advance NYC-EJA’s transformative policy priorities and research agenda, operationalize climate justice infrastructure at CUNY, and nourish an emerging generation of community-based climate leaders in NYC.