Writer: Samantha Cristol (she/her)
Samantha Cristol is a second year law student at Georgetown University Law Center. She received her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and spent three years working in the construction management industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is passionate about environmental justice and building a world where the natural and built environments coexist in healthy and meaningful ways.
Dear library, I love you, and I’m not alone. I love that utilizing your services has been one of my most financially, socially, creatively, environmentally sustainable choices as of late.
If we are to learn from the Surfside tragedy, now is the time for municipalities, investors, and residents to recognize their mutual self-interest and make resilience a top priority.
