Enya Fang (she/her) is a sophomore at Columbia University interested in the intersection of climate and justice. Growing up between China, Singapore, and Canada, she has always been keenly aware of the roles governance, culture, and technology play in shaping environmental responses. Now an Economics-Statistics major, Enya focuses on leveraging data, policy, and narrative to drive equitable frameworks for sustainable development.
In 2020, Enya co-founded Evergreen Collective, an international, YOUNGO-registered climate non-profit with over 100 volunteers across six chapters worldwide. She has raised more than $10,000 for disaster relief, published over 70 climate-focused articles, and interviewed UNICEF ambassadors alongside various Members of Parliament. From 2020 to 2025, she served as a representative for the Climate Action Accelerator Program, advising on sustainability policies for schools across Canada. In 2023, Enya was named one of Canada’s youngest Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalists by The Starfish Canada and received personal recognition in a letter from Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
In 2024, Enya was one of 14 candidates selected globally for the Future Blue Youth Council, serving as a project manager for grassroots environmental initiatives in Nigeria and the United States. That same year, she served on a panel at the Green Party of Canada’s Annual General Meeting alongside federal leader Elizabeth May and debated environmental regulation at a roundtable with Premier David Eby and several MLAs. In 2025, she led two workshops at British Columbia’s Youth Sustainability Conference for over 200 students from 27 schools. Enya is a Canon Young Champion finalist and a recipient of the National Youth Climate Activism Award.
A storyteller through and through, Enya loves communicating environmental reform through her writing. In 2020, she won the A&E Network’s National Essay Contest for her piece on youth activist Stella Bowles. The following year, she was one of 10 writers shortlisted in the CBC First Page Writing Contest for a short story on climate negligence. She has since written an op-ed for Stanford University, published interviews with figures like Brian Skerry and Isaac Hernandez, and launched a travel conservation blog.
Enya currently serves as Deputy Research Director at Climate Cardinals, where she is co-authoring a forthcoming white paper on improving the linguistic accessibility of early warning systems. In 2026, Enya was one of 30 fellows selected from a pool of over 6,000 applicants for the Climate Cardinals Fellowship Program. Additionally, she analyzes the global emissions impact of energy investments from the Belt and Road Initiative for Mapping Global China, an international collaborative project led by Dr. Maria Adele Carrai. In her free time, Enya enjoys hiking trails in the Pacific Northwest, writing poetry (you can find her work in several literary magazines), and watching crime shows. She is based in New York City.