About Alison
Alison Cagle is a communications professional with a strong passion for understanding and protecting the planet. She believes that environmental literacy can be utilized to strengthen all of California’s diverse communities, by creating a deep understanding of and commitment to protect our state’s vibrant natural resources. For nearly three years, she coordinated digital learning resources for environmental science at Pearson Education, and worked in publicity at Random House in New York. Alison is a world traveler, a fierce animal lover, and devoted to working together with communities to teach our children how to nourish and protect the environment, all through the lens of equity and cultural relevance.
There are countless ways to create positive, lasting experiences that nurture an empathetic relationship with the environment. Getting students outdoors is just one way; some common examples are investigating solutions to combat campus pollution or harmful air quality, growing school plants to observe their unfolding natural processes, or inviting a fun, interactive presentation conducted by […]
When we speak of environmental literacy for all, that “all” encompasses the vast diversity that makes up California’s 6.2 million K–12 public school population. Just as biodiversity creates more resilient ecosystems in the natural world, California’s diversity is one of its greatest strengths, and the Environmental Literacy Steering Committee engages many partners in the fields […]
When Mustafa Ali, the decades-long advisor for the Environmental Protection Agency who elevated social justice and industry accountability into the government’s environmental protection agenda, was asked why oversight is needed to ensure the protection and health of lands inhabited by communities of color, Ali did not mince words. “That’s what happens when you are disconnected […]
“The students cleared a local pond that frequently gets clogged with natural or human-made pollution. On their return visit, they saw that a huge log had been thrown into the pond–but when they went to remove it, they found a thriving ecosystem of snails reclaiming the wood. So the students made the independent decision to […]