Alex Voynow
Alex Voynow is a Master’s candidate in Educational Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research and practice explore how transformational learning experiences can facilitate ecological identity and belonging as a pathway towards climate stewardship and collective resilience.
Alex has spent over a decade designing and leading experiential education programs that reconnect people with the living world. He has worked with organizations such as Wilderness Torah, Kinhood, Rite of Passage Journeys, and the Web of Life Field School, where he guided youth and adults through immersive outdoor learning experiences focused on building ecological awareness, personal transformation, and belonging within human and more-than-human community.
At Harvard, Alex serves as a Research Assistant with the Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA), exploring how leaders and organizations learn, adapt, and collaborate in times of complexity and change. Uniting his professional and academic journey, Alex believes in a form of transformational climate work that arises when people engage in inquiry that deepens their understanding of themselves, others, and the systems they are part of.
In his free time, Alex enjoys making music, reading, and trying to get lost in the woods.
The Salata Institute
The Salata Institute supports interdisciplinary research that leads to real-world action, including high-risk/high-reward projects by researchers already working in the climate area and new endeavors that make it easier for Harvard scholars, who have not worked on climate problems, to do so. Faculty interested in the Climate Research Clusters program should note an upcoming deadline for concepts on April 1, 2024.