Hailing from Western Massachusetts, Jane Scanlan-Emigh is a student at Agnes Scott College in the greater Atlanta Area. Committed to ideals of progress and community, she has worked for over a year for Sunrise Amherst facilitating intergenerational conversations about what it means to hold both grief and hope in a rapidly warming world. She has co-lead workshops at the Hitchcock Center for the Environment at Hampshire College, Amherst Historical Society, and the Massachusetts Audobon Arcadia Wildlife Center, among others. She formerly headed Sunrise Amherst's Solar Team and continues to advocate for solar energy in her hometown. In 2022 she received the Amherst Human Rights Commission Human Rights Heroes Award for her work with the Sunrise Movement. In May of 2023 Scanlan-Emigh was a contributing writer for a transformative article investigating the mistreatment of transgender students by guidance counselors at Amherst Regional Middle School, which garnered attention from the Boston Globe and earned her and her co-authors a 2023 Amherst Human Rights Heroes Award and citations of recognition from the Massachusetts statehouse. She loves to run, read, write, and argue in both English  and Mandarin hopes to translate these skills into a career in public policy or lobbying through a degree in political science and Asian studies.