Elias Markee-Ratner
Elias Markee-Ratner is an eighth grade student at the Little Red School House and Elizabeth Irwin High School in New York City. His social justice topic is marine pollution. This topic is of critical importance to communities and ecosystems across the world. As someone who cares about the environment and lives in a coastal city, he feels that this human and environmental rights issue is of extreme importance in an era of ever-increasing and unsustainable pollution.