Work

Awards & Honors

2025 Forbes 30 under 30
2025 EJ Rising Star by WeAct for Environmental Justice
2025 EcoAmerica Award
2024-2026 100k 776 Fellowship
2024 New York Times Climate Forward Change Maker
2024 Green Carpet Sustainable Fashion Award Young Leader Honoree
2024 Austin Woman Changemaker List
2023 Vital Voices Grassroots Leadership Inaugural Cohort
2023 Harvard AOCC Award for Educational Justice
2023 Cesar Chavez Award
2023 Grist 50 Fixer
2023 Tom's of Maine Incubator Recipient
2022 WWF Conservation Award Winner
2022 Echoing Green Fellowship Finalist
2022 Jericho Fellowship in Venice, Activism Prize
2022 UN Youth Assembly USA Ambassador
2022-2023 100k Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship
2022 BIPOC POINT Scholar
2021 Brower Youth Award 
Graduated Summa Cum Laude from NYU
Deans List, Latin Honors, University Honors Scholar
Undergraduate Academic Excellence for the Class of 2020 for Gallatin
Phi Beta Kappa 3rd year of college 
Tori Burch Innovation Scholar 
Dean’s Conference Fund to attend Environmental Law and Policy Review Conference in Washington D.C. 
NYU Conference funding to attend 2018 PrepCom for the 2020 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in Geneva
Finalist in the NYU E-lab 10k Changemaker Challenge 

Four women standing together, smiling at the camera at the TIME 100 Climate Leadership Forum, with a backdrop featuring logos of Iberdrola, Siemens, and American Insurance.
Young woman with long dark hair speaking at a podium during a presentation, with a large screen behind her displaying her name, 'Policy Director, PODER', and a partial picture of her.
Four people standing together in a courtroom or government chamber, with American and Texas flags behind them, smiling at the camera.

Publications

  • Journal: Health and Place
    Title: Neighborhood variation in childhood asthma emergency department visit rates in Austin, Texas is associated with tenant-reported housing conditions.
    Corresponding Author: Associate Professor Adam L. Haber
    Co-Authors: Zichuan Li, M.S.; Rebecca A. Zarate; Sophia S. Carryl; Alexia Leclercq; Susan Balcer-Whaley; Darlene Bhavnani; Sarah E. Chambliss; Elizabeth J. Mueller; Elizabeth Samuels; Elizabeth Matsui
    Manuscript Number: JHAP-D-25-02805

    Bahamón-Pinzón D, Siegel HG, Leclercq A, Banner J, Pinon C, Almanza S, Haragan K, Mullins L, Pagán F, Cardenas M, Siddiqui N, Montoya D. Identifying impacts and causes of drinking water quality issues through community-based participatory research in a suburban neighborhood in Texas: The case of Austin’s Colony. PLOS Water. In review: PWAT-D-25-00135.

    Leclercq, Herrera, and Almanza “Demolition: The Legacy of displacement and gentrification in East Austin Continues.” PODER, Feb 2022.

    Leclercq, Almanza, and Herrera, “Reaching Vulnerable Population in East Austin” Austin Public Health, 31 October 2020. 

    Almanza, et al. “Comparative Analyses of Low-Income Housing Along the East Riverside Corridor Master Plan 2019.” Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin Community, 2019.

    Leclercq "Beneath the Gilets Jaunes: Disruption Power Structures or Reinforcing the Far-Right Rhetoric?" Senior thesis, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, May 2020.

  • Leclercq "Access to Climate Education is a Matter of Justice" Al Jazeera, Nov 18th, 2024. 

    Leclercq "Green Cities are for People, not Profit" YES! Magazine, July 11, 2024. 

    Leclercq "Behind the scenes of COP28 in Dubai," Assembly Malala Fund, Feb 28, 2024.

    Leclercq "A Love Letter to my friends in the Climate Movement," Assembly Malala Fund, Nov 29, 2023. 

    Leclercq "How Asian-Pacific Islanders Shaped Environmental Activism," Atmos, Dec 19th, 2022. 

    Chen & Leclercq "The Problem with Climate Change Influencers," Teen Vogue. June 29th, 2022. 

  • Bell and Leclercq, "Take This With You Zine." May 2019.

    Leclercq, Alexia "The World is Already on Fire" EMBODIED Magazine Issue 14, 2019. 

    Leclercq, Alexia "In My Mother's Eyes" BRIO: NYU’s Undergraduate Literature journal, 2020. 

    Leclercq, Alexia “American Paranoia: The Fight Against ‘Evil.’” EMBODIED Magazine, 29 April. 2019.