Luisa Neubauer is a youth climate justice activist and lead organizer of the German “Fridays for Future” climate movement. For over five years, she and “Fridays for Future” have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets. In 2022, TIME Magazine included her among the “100 Next” leaders. In “Neubauer vs. Germany” she and others won a landmark constitutional court ruling against the German government in 2021, forcing the government to improve its climate law. She and others are now suing the (new) German government again. Neubauer has published three best-selling books on the climate crisis, including her most recent one available in English “Beginning to End the Climate Crisis. A History of Our Future” published by Brandeis University Press in 2023. She is the host of the award-winning Podcast “1,5 Degrees”.
This fall, Neubauer is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University and a John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
Neubauer is currently completing a Master’s degree in Geography.
This information is accurate for the time period that the fellow is affiliated with CES.
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