About Marisol
Marisol at Brower youth Awards (Drew Alitzer Photography)
Marisol Becerra is a 22-year-old Chicana from Chicago. As an activist with Chicago’s Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), she launched its youth branch, YAOTL (Youth Activists Organizing as Today’s Leaders) to map and inventory the toxins in a two-mile radius of the Fisk and Crawford coal power plants and produce Our Map of Environmental Justice, an interactive online map that includes youth-created videos of toxic sites with which to educate her community about environmental injustices. Marisol is a 2008 Brower Youth Award recipient, Ronald E. McNair Scholar and Gates Millennium Scholar for her environmental activism and academics. Marisol aspires to obtain a Ph.D. in Environmental Policy. Her research interests include the impacts of air pollution on human health and the socioeconomic disparities in relation to communities living in close proximity to environmental hazards. Her dream job is to work as the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA).
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