Nabila Wilson ’27 (right) looks out over the Blue Ridge Mountains while sitting at the summit of Sam Knob in Pisgah National Forest.

Furman University student Nabila Wilson ’27 offered her comments in an article appearing in Inside Climate News, “Climate Disaster Survivors Organize Across America, Turning Common Bonds of Loss Into Action.” Wilson spoke to journalist Gabe Castro-Root about her experiences growing up in Houston where she witnessed flooding in the city three times, the last one, Hurricane Harvey in 2017 that claimed at least 89 lives and destroyed more than 200,000 homes and businesses.

Wilson is president of Environmental Action Group and is an Eco-Rep Fellow at Furman. She’s also active in the Furman University Outdoor Club. The sustainability science major/data analytics minor keeps her climate advocacy goals manageable. “My goal doesn’t have to be to change the whole federal government,” she said in the article. “Sometimes it can be to empower and help train my fellow youth.”