About:

Alexander Prescott is a senior in CUNY Hunter College, receiving a BA with departmental honors in Environmental Studies: Management and Policy and a Roosevelt House Public Policy Certification. His professional and academic career in New York City has fueled his passion for studying urban/environmental interactions. Working with the Lower East Side Ecology Center, he helped small business owners improve their energy, waste, and water infrastructure and sustainability practices.

For his geography department honors thesis he is analyzing the effects of the urban greening as a vehicle for eco-gentrification on low-income residents within the Manhattan neighborhood, Cheslea.

While studying in the Roosevelt House he has chosen to explore the intersections of poverty, environmental injustice, and regulatory negligence in Flint, Michigan.

He has been admitted into the University of California Santa Barbara’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management Masters program where he will continue to work towards improving the sustainability of relationships between humans and our environment.