Middlebury sophomore receives national award for environmental action | Times-Argus online

Two Vermont teens were nationally recognized for their work as environmental leaders [on October 21] in San Francisco, Calif., where they each received a Brower Youth Award.

Selected from 122 applicants from across the country, 18-year-old Phebe Meyers, of Woodstock and 17-year-old Jessie-Ruth Corkins of Bristol make up one-third of the award winners.

Meyers, a sophomore majoring in environmental studies at Middlebury College, received the award for her work to purchase, conserve and reforest land critical to indigenous birds and neotropical migrant species in Costa Rica.

Her work began well before going to college. In 1998, Meyers and her twin sister, Nika, co-founded the nonprofit organization Change the World Kids, made up of middle and high school students undertaking humanitarian and environmental efforts to make a positive difference in the Upper Valley area and across the globe.

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