Fransha (pronounced ‘fran-SHĀ’) Dace is a climate scientist and activist from Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. Fransha earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Emory University, during which time she studied Wildlife Management at the School for Field Studies in Tanzania, East Africa. Fransha went on to earn a master’s degree in atmospheric physics and climate change adaptation from Columbia University. As a researcher at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Fransha deepened her fascination for climate adaptation planning in international agricultural landscapes. As her doctoral journey at the Yale School of the Environment comes to a close, Fransha hopes to continue the interdisciplinary, multiscalar work of building prepared, supportive and safe communities domestically and internationally.