About Us

We are a global network of researchers and activists.

Across disciplines, sectors, and continents, we generate and share knowledge rooted in lived experience. Our purpose is clear — to amplify women-centered climate action, locally and globally.

Our Core members

Our core team brings together transdisciplinary expertise across climate adaptation and resilience, sociology, anthropology, feminist history, ethical data stewardship, geospatial storytelling, arts-integrated research, sustainability strategy, legal advocacy, public health, and education.

Our Core Members

Peg Spitzer

International Affairs,
Women & Climate Justice

Victoria Pilato

Digital Collections,
Ethical Digital Stewardship

Jamie Sommer

Environmental Sociology,
Climate Governance & Justice

Karina Yager

Environmental Anthropology,
Adaptive Strategies

Genevieve Tremblay

Knowledge Translation
& Visual Storytelling

Emily Christoff

Public Affairs,
Sustainability Communications

Leio Koga

International Human Rights
& Climate Justice

Eliza White

Archival Research in Sustainability

Jamilah Christiansen

Sociology, Cross-national Quantitative Methods

Jannatul Ferdous Chowdhury Bushra

Sociology, Population, Environment & Social Inequality

Anabella Wiscovitch

Environmental Studies, Geospatial Science

Shumaila Fatima

Global Political Sociology; Migration;
Gender and Youth Empowerment

Support Staff

Soraya Masrour

Health Sciences,
CKC Website Manager

Forrest Myer

English & Pre-law,
Program Manager

Emily Cepin

Sustainability & Library Science,
CKC Administrative Assistant

our HISTORY

Dr. Peg Spitzer

In 2024, Dr. Peg Spitzer founded the Climate Knowledge Collective (CKC) to center women’s climate leadership, especially in communities whose knowledge is too often under-recognized.

Her research, including her book Empowering Female Climate Change Activists in the Global South (Emerald Insights, 2023), revealed a striking gap: Women were driving critical climate solutions, yet their contributions were rarely recorded in the places where global climate action is shaped.

CKC was created to change that—by amplifying the knowledge of women at the frontlines of climate resilience.

Peg’s approach to oral history, and her understanding of its role in knowledge creation, grew out of her work in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University.

PARTNERING INSTITUTIONS

Stony Brook University (SBU) Contributors

To bring meaningful educational experiences/opportunities to students and faculty at SBU, we work with the following departments/centers: Changing Systems of Power; Geospatial Center; Environmental Humanities Lab, Hispanic Languages and Literatures; History; Humanities Institute at Stony Brook; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Multilingual and Intercultural Communication; School of Atmospheric and Marine Sciences; Sociology; Stony Brook Universities Libraries; Teacher Education; Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities; Writing and Rhetoric; and World Languages.

Global Partnerships

We work closely with many international institutions that are dedicated to gender equity and climate justice, including the Center for Development History; Community Cloud Forest Conservation; Federation of American Women’s Clubs Overseas; Feminist Participatory Action Research Academy; Global Ministry of the Holy Cross Nuns; Luann Dummer Center for Women; Naireeta Services; Together Women Rise; Women Engaged for a Common Future; Women’s Environment and Development Organization/Gender and Environment Data Alliance.