Anna Aguto is the 2024-2025 Program Assistant for Sustainable Energy and Environment and Native Advocacy. She lobbies Congress to address climate change in equitable, just, and peaceful ways and to live up to its treaty responsibilities to Tribal nations.
Anna graduated from Brown University with bachelor of arts in Environmental Studies and Ethnic Studies and from SOAS University of London with a master of science in Environment, Politics, and Development. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on Philippine speculative climate fiction and masters’ thesis on land rights in peace processes in Mindanao, Philippines. Throughout her undergraduate studies, she worked as a peer educator and coordinator for sexual health awareness.
Anna recently moved back to the DMV from Geneva, Switzerland, where she was working as a Program Assistant for the Human Impacts of Climate Change program at the Quaker United Nations Office. In this role, she advocated for human rights-based international climate policy that addressed the root causes driving planetary crisis. Prior to this position, Anna interned in Congress, at a gender parity NGO, and at a legal center addressing housing discrimination.
In her free time, she enjoys reading, bullet journaling, and cycling.