During my summer at Climate Mental Health Network, I primarily worked on project management of our various programming, including climate mental health education programs, climate and mental health storytelling, and grant writing/prospecting for said programs. Climate Mental Health Network envisions everyone, especially young people, with the tools and resources to feel supported, emotionally resilient, and able to take meaningful actions to address the climate crisis. My work was directly connected to the organization's mission as I worked with various partners and funders to aid in educational content creation, creative media projects, and fundraising. My project management outcomes strengthened and grew our network of partners and funders, reached over 5,000 people across all public relations platforms, and researched over 250 foundations with over 50 pages of grant applications written. During this internship, I worked closely with the director, Sarah Newman, to reach our project outcomes. Strategic Climate Communications with Bora Change and Francesco Fiondella, a Climate School course on the most effective means of communicating about climate change for various types of audiences in the context of the current media landscape helped to inform my work this summer. Bora and Francesco introduced me to the fundamentals of nonprofit work and taught me how to communicate climate science to a myriad of different audiences depending on their knowledge and relation to climate science. The basics of a theory of change, the six americas, and various examples of climate media informed my work at Climate Mental Health Network. Finally, Strategic Climate Communications demonstrated the importance of courage for climate action which not only aided my science communication, but became the basis of an entire project I pitched and ran at my nonprofit. The outcome resulted in a collaborative partnership where I wrote an article that was published on our partner's online publication. This course introduced me to important concepts and influenced my climate action in a positive way. Having insight from this class was crucial for my practical application of the taught theory. The research project I worked on was challenging at times by its inherently independent nature. This forced me to integrate social balance in complementary ways outside of the studio. I also needed to steward projects to completion while being the only researcher that could successfully do so at times because of my built knowledge base on the topic. It felt daunting and, at times, nearly impossible, to develop the research further because of this. I had to problem solve and identify solutions in unique and creative ways in order to answer new and emerging questions that revealed themselves at various incremental stages of the research. Luckily, I felt that my director was an incredible resource and felt supported by her whenever it was needed. It was such an incredibly invaluable experience to work at the intersection of science, design, theory, and application to build healthier and more environmentally-friendly futures with the Climate Mental Health Network. Throughout my experience, I explored new Earth building methodologies, material science sequences, and iterated over 30 material recipes until I discovered a flexible fabric made out of mud and bio-based materials. With support from the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and research directorship from the studio, I was able to fulfill my overall summer research goals and produce tangible products to showcase the newly developed material. I pursued an internship opportunity at Climate Mental Health Network because I wanted to explore the possibilities of one of the most abundant resources on Earth to see if it could be used as an alternative to address an environmentally damaging textile industry. Throughout the experience, I realized that my research allowed this potential possibility to actually fully materialize. And though this research is still at an iterative design stage, I will be continuing my research efforts as a consultant to further develop the material at both a body and architectural fabrication scale. I feel confident that this is the ideal place for me to launch my continued efforts in environmental material innovation and that it has expansive potential to continue to connect me to my next design phases as well.