BIOGRAPHY

Half Australian and Egyptian and studying for an undergraduate degree for a Bachelor of Science in Geography, Lela Gomersall is passionate about the intersectionality between the environment and the respective communities that live within them. She is passionate about research around the natural environment and is currently writing a dissertation about the effects of climate change of agriculture in Egypt. However, her passions lie with working in small scale grassroots projects including projects working on plastic pollution and changing the rhetoric around climate change and providing Egyptian women entrepreneurs with loans to be successful in their field.