This spring, we decided to close the Divestment Student Network. Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out how to understand the more than four years I spent in this organization. 

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen yet another wave of incredible divestment escalations at schools across the country. And over the past few years, our movement has made history. 

Two weeks ago, hundreds of students and youth gathered in DC for the Peoples Climate March Youth Convening. The next day, we joined with thousands of other young people to march, sing and chant in the Youth Bloc, amongst a crowd of more than 200,000!

Today we did something huge. Over a thousand students from 25 campuses walked out in the largest student action of the Trump era. From middle schools to colleges and universities, young people across the country rose up to demand that our institutions choose the future of our generation over the fossil fuel industry and Trump’s climate denial.

On an unusually hot day in November 2015 I stopped by my local coffee shop in Parktown, a suburb of South Africa’s thriving Johannesburg. I ordered my chai and went to take a seat, and I couldn’t help but notice a paper sitting there on the counter with a title that read “5 dead after extreme heat wave rolls through Mpumalanga.”

On Wednesday morning after Donald Trump won the presidency, the staff and long term strategy team of the Divestment Student Network came together to meet. It was a momentous day, which will be written in history. If you need to write an essay or need an admission essay writing service for best price, you can contact the experts

My name is Greta Neubauer and I am the new director at the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network. I’ve been organizing with the DSN since our first meeting, at the 2013 Power Up! Convergence at Swarthmore College. I am deeply humbled to be in this position, and grateful to have the opportunity to continue being part of and building this incredible movement.