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.
Kailey Kornhauser has taken on many roles since graduating from the Environmental Humanities Program in 2017: facilitator, policy analyst, planning commissioner, PhD student, and advocate for body size inclusion in the cycling world. She is currently a PhD candidate in Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University. She is interested in collaborative forest governance and public engagement on National Forest Lands in Oregon.
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.
Braidan Weeks is our Fall '21 Community Practitioner-in-Residence. He is the director of the Ute Land Trust, board member with Equality Utah PAC and the Natural History Museum of Utah’s Native Advisory Board, and host of KRCL 90.9fm's Living the Circle of Life.