Jewel Tomasula is Policy Advisor at the Endangered Species Coalition. She served as a Knauss Sea Grant Legislative Fellow for the Office of Congressman Don Beyer (VA-08). Jewel got her PhD from the Georgetown University Department of Biology, working with Dr. Gina Wimp. She was an active leader of the graduate labor union Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees (GAGE), and she was GAGE's first president in 2020-2021.
Expertise and Interests
Biodiversity conservation
Ecological sciences |
Endangered Species Act
Legislative environmental policy |
Graduate labor unions
Collective bargaining |
Ecology and Environmental Science
Biology PhD from Georgetown University
ORISE research scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Headquarters
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Organizing and Advocacy
Contract Personalis: How Georgetown’s Graduate Workers Organized to Win, The Forge, 2020.
While every campus provides unique opportunities and challenges for graduate-worker organizing, ours bore out one of the truths of labor politics: the collective power that our membership showed the university through in-person organizing and online activism was central to our success.
Read the article.
Scientists Must Speak Up for the Green New Deal, Scientific American, 2019.
The resolution’s focus on climate and social justice highlights the central challenges—and opportunities—of our time.
Read the article.
Opinion Articles
Interviews
While every campus provides unique opportunities and challenges for graduate-worker organizing, ours bore out one of the truths of labor politics: the collective power that our membership showed the university through in-person organizing and online activism was central to our success.
Read the article.
Scientists Must Speak Up for the Green New Deal, Scientific American, 2019.
The resolution’s focus on climate and social justice highlights the central challenges—and opportunities—of our time.
Read the article.
Opinion Articles
- Why I Strike for Climate as a Salt Marsh Ecologist, Sister STEM, 2019. Read the article.
- The Unapologetically Feminist Scientist Wave, Sister STEM, 2019. Read the article.
- Why We Need to Keep Fighting for Dreamers, for STEM'S sake, Sister STEM, 2018. Read the article.
- LTE: Enough Himpathy, Science Magazine, 2018. Read the article.
- When it comes to sexual harassment, academia is fundamentally broken, Scientific American, 2018. Read the article.
- Why you should care about a chemical you've never heard of? The case to ban Chlorpyrifos, 500 Women Scientists on Medium, 2017. Read the article.
Interviews
- Washington Post: Amid pandemic, graduate student workers are winning long-sought contracts. Read the story.
- DCist: Georgetown Graduate Students Reach First Union Contract With University. Read the story.
- Inside Higher Ed: Ruling Out Grad Unions. Read the story.
- AFT Voices: I am a worker. I need a union. Read the story.
- Refinery 29: Student's thoughts on the GOP tax bill. Read the story.
- Live Science: Are We Really Running Out of Time to Stop Climate Change? Read the story.
- Grist: Should we judge Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by her carbon footprint? Read the story.
- Personal Finance for PhDs: Combatting Climate Change with Your Finances, Individually and Collectively. Listen to the podcast.
- Lady Science: 500 Women Scientists Use STEM in the Fight Against Trump. Read the story.