Sam Nelson is currently the Environmental Education Intern with Tree Utah. He is working with local schools to help students learn about plants in their community through creative writing and interdisciplinary, place-based curriculum. As an EH student, Sam seeks to fuse his interests in writing, education, and plant ecology to help children build stronger relationships to land in their communities. He is particularly interested in storytelling from plant perspectives.
Hannah Taub has been working at Antelope Island State Park as an Interpretive Ranger. She is facilitating a collaboration with the Northwest Band of Shoshone to educate about the Indigenous history and futurity at the park.
Maria Archibald is a second-year student in the UU Environmental Humanities Graduate Program. For her summer engagement grant, fall internship, and ongoing research, she has partnered with Utah Youth for Environmental Solutions (UYES) to develop climate justice and political education curriculum that will mobilize young people.
Riley Sayers is a second year student in the Environmental Humanities Program and a Mellon Community Fellow. Riley organizes for prison abolition, food justice, and community care with the Mobile Moon Co-op and the Salt Lake Community Bail Fund.
McKenna Granato's final project research explores Indigenous sovereignty and everyday acts of resurgence at the Loko I’a Fishpond in Hawai’i.