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Alice Owen

Alice Owen is a researcher with the Environmental Justice Atlas at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and studying for an MSc in Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. This year she also participated for the first time as an activist in the Ende Gelände action.

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