Name: June Binnard

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Environment: Microplastics

Date of Fieldwork: February 15, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Ann Blake

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?:

We met with Ann Blake on February 15, 2023. Ann is a freelance consultant who has spent the last 30 years looking for solutions that will improve the world. Through our connections with the PPC, an organization we had already interviewed, we got in touch with her. She spoke about many of the projects she has worked on and seemed incredibly passionate about this subject. She genuinely wanted young people like us to be concerned about this issue, so she asked each of us why we were fighting for change in the plastic industry. We found Ann to be very motivating, and it was an honor to hear her opinions and see how interested she seemed in us. Overall, I thought the interview went well, and I learned what people can do when they have a strong motivation to succeed.