Climate Change is Personal | Episode 4: Charlie Krouse

Today we're here with the kind-hearted Charlie Krouse fka Laura; A climate organizer and advocate for reproductive justice and disability rights. Charlie has multiple auto-immune diseases, a brain tumor, and Lyme disease, which she has likely lived with for 7 years undiagnosed before her diagnosis 3 years ago.

Climate change is personal to Charlie because the tick that bit her, the Lone Star tick, in southern Oregon is not common to the Northern US but has expanded its territory due to climate change. Realizing this has put an urgent push on Charlie's advocacy work to pass policies that can help protect people's health here in the United States that are similarly threatened by the climate crisis.