Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Rhode Island (Session 1)

The Brown Environmental Leadership Lab (BELL) combines concepts in environmental studies, ecology, and leadership, with a mission of developing socially responsible leaders. At BELL, you’ll embark on a journey of learning and reflection while building community with the fellow student environmentalists in your program. This 11-day course will take you to Barrington, Rhode Island, 40 minutes south of Providence. Your home base will be the St. Andrew’s School campus, a school founded in 1893 that is located near Hundred Acre Cove, a wetland and popular birding spot that opens to the Barrington River. In the classroom and during outdoor labs, you’ll work to better understand the causes and impacts of climate change and identify examples of environmental resilience. You’ll also develop resources and skills for environmental advocacy and environmental justice literacy while learning about socially responsible leadership.