Teens for a Green New Deal
“At the end of the day, if we don’t combat the climate crisis, there will be no school to worry about.”
HANTÉ DAVIS, A 16-YEAR-OLD NEW ORLEANS NATIVE, knows that climate change is urgent and personal. In 2005, she and her family were evacuated right before Hurricane Katrina decimated their hometown. They settled in Houston, where, over the past decade, she’s lived through several more storms, made stronger and more dangerous because of the rapid warming of the planet. In 2019, Davis joined the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate action organization. Since then, Davis, an aspiring marine biologist, has helped mobilize teens across the Houston
