Monai Tripp

Monai joins GridEquity following completion of her B.A. in English from Georgia Southern University where she studied postcolonial writing, U.S. literary and oral traditions, research methodologies, and philosophy. As an undergraduate student, Monai analyzed American mass media with respect to the climate emergency and wrote extensively on society and "the environment" in contemporary Southern literature. Her interdisciplinary academic pursuits stem from her interest in equitable access to nature, biodiversity in the U.S. South, and a childhood spent as a voracious reader in southeast Georgia. Monai is invested in alleviating environmental injustice in the South and beyond through building external systems of accountability, resilience, and progress. Above all else, she believes in the power of storytelling to amplify the voices of those traditionally omitted from mainstream environmentalism and its ability to connect with communities facing similar challenges, far beyond these artificial borders