ALESSANDRO MARANGELLI
BIO
Alessandro Marangelli (he/they) is a student at St. Lawrence University double majoring in Anthropology and Environmental Studies and minoring in Global Studies. Originally from Italy, Marangelli is passionate about the intersectional understanding of cultural, social and environmental sustainability. They hope to work in an environment that fights injustices and to enact, enable and empower sustainable change.
“The younger generation is often framed as the ‘procrastinator.’ We are the ‘kids’ who only care about social media. Yet, in the face of the Climate Crisis, our generation is mobilizing to demand change. Here in the Haudenosaunee territory (the North Country), people of all ages believe in the ideas that the concept of Rights of Nature encompasses. We believe nature deserves further legal protection in the form of recognition as a living entity with legal standing. We want to preserve and prosper with our Mother Earth. This is why young people from the St. Lawrence River watershed are working together to organize an international symposium which will take place on March 22, International Water Day. During the North Country Rights of Nature Symposium, community members will join to discuss how best to protect the region’s waterways.”