Portraits: Minna Brown ’07, Director of the Middlebury Climate Action Program

Dozens of alumni who helped launch Middlebury’s Sunday Night Environmental Group (originally known as the “Sunday Night Group”) returned to campus recently for SNEG’s 20-year reunion and a two-day conference exploring the question, “What Works Now?”
 
We asked a few of them to reflect on their time as Middlebury students and to offer some advice for today’s generation of college climate activists. 

Find your niche.

Minna: The downfall for many people is when you feel like it’s too big, it’s too complicated, it’s on a meta level you can’t even comprehend. So the more you can say ‘Okay, this is my niche and that’s that person’s niche,’ the more you’re going to move toward something.