Planeteer Alliance Regional Coordinator, United States
Evan Michaeli (he/him) serves as the Planeteer Alliance Regional Coordinator in the United States. Originally from Newton, Massachusetts, Evan now attends Macalester College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and has been an avid environmentalist since sixth grade when he lived with his grandmother in Newport, Rhode Island.
During that sixth-grade year, he participated in cleanups on Easton’s Beach with Clean Ocean Access. The cleanups led to Evan passing a plastic bag bill in Rhode Island and presenting in front of 100,000 attendees at The Ocean Race about coral bleaching. After that year, he led the charge in the Dedham Bag Ban, where he sat on a committee that wrote bylaws and researched plastic bag alternatives. Recently, Evan was the leading force in a successful effort to reduce plastics in Newton along with fighting for ocean rights and creating a bill to enhance climate justice education in the state of Massachusetts. In addition, Evan has won several international awards for his writing on environmental issues.