Seasonal Fabrication Technician

Billion Oyster Project

She/Her

Helen Chirigos is a New Yorker who first got involved with Billion Oyster Project through founding an ‘Oyster Club’ in her high school. She grew up raising oysters with her family through Cornell Cooperative Extension and then studied environmental analysis and politics at Pitzer College, eager for experience in environmental management. She is currently back at Billion Oyster Project as a Seasonal Fabrication Technician and enjoys biking and foraging her way through NYC. The story she is sharing with The New York Climate Exchange’s Climate Story Project, is one of an enduring belief that oysters will help save the world.