The Cooper Climate Coalition is an open body of students, faculty, and staff at The Cooper Union, facilitates conversations, events, and student projects within the institution that center the climate crisis and its intersections with races, classes, genders, sexualities, histories, economies, political structures and more. Along with organizing Cooper Union’s Climate Week programs and events in the fall, the Climate Coalition takes responsibility for fostering interdisciplinarity throughout The Cooper Union in support of environmental action.
The Direct Action Group aims to create an adaptive ecosystem for learning at Cooper. This ecosystem requires a plurality of forms of knowledge-making, modes of thinking, and multi-perspectival histories so that we can engage critically with the most pressing issues of our moment. As a group, we use both the traditional ideas of direct action and our agency as a collective of students, staff, and professors to build a more just learning environment and interrupt the business as usual framework of an institution.
The Projects Group provides space for students at the Cooper Union interested in working at the intersection of their studies and the climate crisis. Outside of pre-existing curricula, the group aims to support climate action through cross-disciplinary learning.
The Programming Group organizes and produces events that provide space for members of The Cooper Union and its proximate community to work across disciplines to examine the many facets of the climate crisis.
The Cooper Climate Coalition is funded by the Presidents Grant of the Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art.
The Cooper Climate Coalition was co-founded by Alisa Petrosova and Sophie Schneider.
Faculty Advisor: Amanda Simson
Graphic Design: Alisa Petrosova, Isaac Leahey-Leow
Illustrations: Isaac Leahey-Leow
Web Development: Petr Gazarov, Sophie Schneider, and Jacob Fischer