Andy Currier is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs with a concentration in Global Environment and Resources. He is primarily interested in evaluating strategies for developing countries to adapt to climate change with a focus on Sub-Saharan African food systems and community driven development. Andy has spent time working in Malawi on a variety of youth, health and agriculture projects and at the USAID Bureau of Food Security Service Center. A 2016 graduate of Colby College, Andy double majored in Environmental Policy and Government and spent the past summer interning at Landesa.
For communities across the Global South, the impacts of climate change are not abstract projections but concrete realities that threaten their land and food security. In the wake of the…