Katherine Bailey
reporting for New York
Katherine Bailey is a freshman at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where she will study environmental law and marine biology. She is the founder of the Nazareth Environmental Club, a group that has successfully raised enough money to install living green walls in the gardens of Nazareth Academy. Her past endeavors include three coastal clean-ups during which she and the crew collected over 600 pounds of litter on the shore of the pond on Long Pond Road in Rochester, N.Y. She is a 2007 Eco-ambassador and attended the Forecast Earth Summit sponsored by The Weather Channel. A member of the Conservation Advisory Board in the Town of Gates, N.Y., Katherine strives to protect the vanishing wilderness and to keep her hometown clean and green. She is currently in the process of writing a fiction novel about environmental issues with her friend.
