Democratizing climate science and environmental data so marginalized communities can understand and resist environmental injustice from positions of informed agency.
Sor Juana fought to access and share knowledge as an act of liberation against systems designed to keep her subordinate. In climate justice, knowledge democratization means translating complex climate science into accessible frameworks for frontline communities—those first harmed by environmental destruction but least heard in policy spaces. This includes centering Indigenous ecological knowledge systems that have sustained communities for millennia, recognizing them as equal to Western scientific paradigms. When peasants, workers, and colonized peoples understand the climate crisis through their own intellectual traditions and languages, they become agents of change rather than passive victims. Sor Juana's insistence on women's intellectual capacity parallels today's necessity of amplifying climate leadership from Global South communities, whose knowledge about adaptation and resilience is systematically devalued by wealthy Northern institutions.
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