Environmental Leadership Program

Ana Baptista is a doctoral candidate in the urban planning and policy development program at the E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, where she studies environmental justice policies. Previously, Ana worked with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management to develop an environmental equity policy. Ana is an active member of New Jersey's Environmental Justice Alliance and works in her native Ironbound community in Newark, NJ on neighborhood revitalization and environmental justice issues.