Sep 22, 2026 · 23 min · 11 segments
Welcome to Season 12 of The Climate Conversation! To kick off the new season, EESI sat down with Cerenity Frederick, Howard University student and Future Climate Leaders scholar. We talked to Cerenity…
Serenity FrederickGuest
Dan BrissettHostAllison DavisHostYou know, when I was looking into Representative Frankel for researching this episode, I saw that she referred to herself as like a, I guess, a grandmother in Congress.
But then at the same time, I just find it so exciting to hear from young people about like where they see us going in our future.
So if you could become a member of Congress tomorrow, what would be your legislative priorities for addressing energy and environmental issues?
I think I would focus more so on clean energy, but as well as the education of energy and clean energy.
I think often if it weren't for my interest of seeing that email and like the curiosity of it all, I don't think I would have ever learned as much information as I do as it pertains to how much my environment growing up affected not only me, but students within my city and how the current statute that it is in now, how it can affect from 10 to 20 years down the line.
So I think if there is more legislation that pushes the education of clean energy and a cleaner environment and our water quality, I think more people would be geared up to making a difference within it so that we can have things like fluoride in our water so that the enamel in our teeth are what it's supposed to be.
You know, when I was looking into Representative Frankel for researching this episode, I saw that she referred to herself as like a, I guess, a grandmother in Congress.
But then at the same time, I just find it so exciting to hear from young people about like where they see us going in our future.
So if you could become a member of Congress tomorrow, what would be your legislative priorities for addressing energy and environmental issues?
I think I would focus more so on clean energy, but as well as the education of energy and clean energy.
I think often if it weren't for my interest of seeing that email and like the curiosity of it all, I don't think I would have ever learned as much information as I do as it pertains to how much my environment growing up affected not only me, but students within my city and how the current statute that it is in now, how it can affect from 10 to 20 years down the line.
So I think if there is more legislation that pushes the education of clean energy and a cleaner environment and our water quality, I think more people would be geared up to making a difference within it so that we can have things like fluoride in our water so that the enamel in our teeth are what it's supposed to be.
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