Fatima Hernandez is a recent UC Santa Cruz graduate who has been very involved in the Right Livelihood student club at UCSC, and a founding member of the Right Livelihood International Student Network. In this episode, she talks with host Chris Benner about her experience particular in meeting Ly Chandaravuth, a leader of 2023 Right Livelihood Award winner Mother Nature Cambodia. Ly and 9 other members of Mother Nature Cambodia were arrested and charged in June 2024 with ‘plotting’ against the state after investigating waste pollution in the Tonlé Sap River in Phnom Penh. 

For more information, please see the Mother Nature Cambodia website, the petition to have the environmental activists freed, and a moving short documentary about their work.