Our Winter and Spring 2024 Youth Activists

Brock Walker

Columbia University

Brock Walker is from Las Vegas, Nevada, just 65 miles south of the Nevada Test Site. The deep impact of the legacy of nuclear testing motivates his pursuit of justice for frontline communities. He currently studies Political Science and Economics at Columbia University with aspirations to enter a career in disarmament.

He is passionate about nuclear justice and previously participated in RTT’s youth delegation to the 2nd Meeting of States of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

At the 2nd Meeting of States Parties, he delivered a youth statement on the implementation of humanitarian provisions to help the victims of the use and testing of nuclear weapons and remediate contaimated environments (Articles 6 and 7).

Zachary Taouli

Tufts University

Zachary Taouli is a sophomore undergraduate at Tufts University, majoring in biology and following the pre-med track. Over the past few years, Zachary has fostered a liking towards the intersection of volunteering, community engagement, and medicine, be that social entrepreneurship projects with his high school, interning at the philanthropic cancer foundation Breakthrough Cancer for the past year, shadowing oncologists at Mount Sinai, volunteering at the ER service unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, or joining a microbiology research lab at Tufts in order to work on cures for the model mechanism of Legionnaire’s Disease. These previous experiences have all led to this ambitious yet exciting new challenge at RTT, a youth initiative fostering the engagement and the acceleration towards the cause for the disarmament of nuclear weapons.

Zachary will focus on expanding the RTT network at Tufts University, and even perhaps the greater Boston area, by opening an East Coast Tufts RTT chapter and tying it to the important pre-med community at Tufts. He will also participate in creating an outline and stable platform for other university students in the northeast to do the same in the future.