Environmental Studies Inquirer
Volume I Issue I
Spring 2018
ENST students in the Senior Capstone Experience class beam with knowledge. Photo: Nich Graham
Environmental Studies Program launches first newsletter Claire Francis Roth
It’s practically a public relations law that growing entities need a newsletter, and Humboldt State University’s Environmental Studies Program is no different. Welcome to the first newsletter in the quickly expanding and interdisciplinary history of HSU environmental studies. Since the program’s inception, environmental studies has made a name for itself by shaping its students into many of the movers and the shakers on campus. If there’s a conversation brewing in The J or The Depot about issues of food justice on campus, there just might be an environmental studies student behind it. The only
two students at the Feb. 2 Budget Open Forum, prepared with questions about the administration? Environmental studies majors. From their very first moments on our redwood-studded campus, environmental studies students are encouraged to remain skeptical about what has been accepted to be the norm. They utilize diverse lenses of thought and knowledge bases to address and challenge structural injustices. These students (and faculty) spend their classroom days working to unpack their privilege, examine the issues of environmental and systematic justice around them, and engage in conversations through interdisciplinary perspectives. The following pages contain highlights from the lives of the current students, alumni, and faculty of HSU environmental studies. Read on to see what they’ve been up to.
Humboldt State University Environmental Studies Program
CONTENTS
From the Program Leader
2
Alumni Highlights
3-5
ENST Student Art
6-8
What’s new, ENST? (Events!)
9-11
Faculty Highlights
12
Acknowledgements
13