15/07/2025
In 2024, The Observer profiled Kenny Moll, a Fordham student who ran seven marathons in seven days along with friends and volunteers to raise awareness for climate justice in a challenge called “A Week for the World.” This June, runners took to the paths of Central Park once more, clad in sports gear and donning race bibs that marked them as participants in the third edition of A Week for the World.
Moll, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’25, organized a week’s worth of programming that combined a run club’s exercise regimen with an activist group’s focus on educational lectures. The daily 26.2-mile marathons began at 6 a.m., with runners settling down by 11:30 a.m. to cool down, rehydrate and listen to the day’s speakers. Some of the invited lecturers had also just completed that day’s run.
Moll invited 25 speakers, several of whom he had met during his time at Fordham, to talk throughout the seven days of A Week for the World. The speakers were mostly organizers involved in the fight for environmental justice, although discussions also connected climate change to its roots in capitalism and its racialized effects on society.
The purpose of the run and the talks were to raise awareness towards climate change and funds for the Sunrise Movement, an organization that A Week for the World has partnered with since its inception. The Sunrise Movement provides a platform for climate activists to canvass voters, lobby politicians and investigate legislation that will help curb climate change. According to Moll, A Week for the World has raised over $20,000 for the organization over the past three years.
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