Ash Inglis Bio

Ash Inglis (they/them) co-founded and leads the garden and greenhouse program at Epiphany

School in Dorchester and has been organizing for climate justice since their childhood. Born and

raised on Nantucket Island, MA, Ash grew up with an acute sense of the urgency of the climate

crisis. At a young age, they noticed how worsening storms increased erosion and flooding. The

vulnerability of the island to sea level rise was, and remains, palpable. In middle school and high

school, Ash was involved in supporting the campaign for Cape Wind, which would have become

the nation’s first offshore wind farm if it had not been blocked by ultra-wealthy vacationers who

did not want to see wind turbines on the horizon. As an undergrad at Harvard, Ash supported

the beginning of the student-led fossil fuel divestment campaign, taking on a role as a lead

organizer when they began to understand the vast inequality and racism of the climate crisis

and felt called to take action against it. They have stayed involved with the fossil fuel divestment

campaign as an alumn and have continued their climate activism by organizing with the

Dorchester Climate Justice Coalition and supporting student climate activism at Epiphany with

the Youth Climate Strikes. Ash is grateful to have been able to support the Indigenous-led

resistance against the Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota; in just one week of washing dishes,

cooking, and gardening at a resistance camp on the front lines in 2021, they learned more about

climate justice than they could have possibly imagined and felt a renewed commitment to doing

food sovereignty work at Epiphany. Since then, Ash has continued to support resistance to Line

3 but has focused primarily on seed keeping, regenerative farming, and collaborating with

students and their families in the Epiphany garden.