Name: Absaroka (Abbie) Mann-Wood

Hometown: Lander, WY

Major: Public Policy with a certificate in Policy, Journalism, and Media Studies

Three topics/ideas/issues that intrigue me: Environmental Justice, power of stories to drive change, educational equity

Interesting/exciting bit of news I read today (or lately): https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/hummingbird-tongues/546992/ on how our understanding of how hummingbirds drink has been wrong for almost 200 years.

Name: Emily Kian

Hometown: Boca Raton, FL

Major: Environmental Studies

Three topics/ideas/issues that intrigue me: Marine conservation, sustainable food systems, environmental activism

Interesting/exciting bit of news I read today (or lately): My friend recently mentioned an article that discussed how macroalgae/seaweed cultivation could drastically offset carbon emissions, but I can’t find the source! It said something like if we were to use a small percent of our ocean surface for macroalgae cultivation, we could offset our carbon emissions each year.

name: Sofia Calvo

hometown: Chapel Hill, NC

major: Environmental Science

3 topics: ecology/ecological conservation (through science and policy), cultural anthropology (especially world languages and music/performance), NGO roles in global/domestic conversation

interesting news: federal court declared non-constitutional gerrymandering in NC

Name: Claire Furlong

Hometown: Pasadena, CA (Los Angeles)

Major: Public Policy Major, Econ Minor & Environmental Science and Policy Minor

Three topics/ideas/issues that intrigue me: meat/dairy industry impact on the environment, sustainable urban development, feminism

Interesting/exciting bit of news I read today (or lately): Oprah’s speech / me too movement

Name: Kevin Coward

Hometown: Key West, Fl

Major:  Economics and Environmental Science

Topics that interest me: Corporate sustainability, Acting locally, thinking globally movement, Frequency of Environmental Disturbances

Interesting news: The company Nestle was accused of “Greenwashing” for bottling Californian water during their extreme drought.

Name: Lily Gillespie

Hometown: Ketchum, Idaho

Major: Cultural Anthropology

3 topics that intrigue me: Zero waste, does the stuff we recycle actually get recycled?, public land (access, debates, tragedy of the commons etc.)

Interesting News: Judge rules that North Carolina is Gerrymandering and need to re-district (hopefully) before 2018 elections

Name: Dylan DeVere Powers

I am from Centennial, Colorado, which is suburb just south of Denver.

I double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and I minor in Economics.

Three topics that intrigue me: Video game development, smart home technologies (mostly voice assistants), advocacy through public speaking.

I read recently that commercially-available quantum computing is closer than we think.  This will be our next major technological revolution, so I think it’s worth knowing.

Name: Colin Brustad

Hometown: Oslo, Norway

Major: Economics, Minor in Environmental Sciences & Policy

Three topics/ideas/issues that intrigue me: Sports, Music, Environmental Sciences

Interesting/exciting bit of news I read today (or lately): Netflix’s new series “Rotten”

Name: Margaret Overton

Hometown: Nashville, TN

Major: Environmental Science and Policy, Sustainability Certificate

Three topics/ideas/issues that intrigue me: Permaculture design, socialism, corporate sustainability

Interesting/exciting bit of news I read today: Bad – Trump said he doesn’t want immigrants to come from “shithole” countries such as those in Africa; Good – Bill Gates thinks that infectious diseases could be eradicated worldwide within a few decades

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Name: Amanda Starling Gould

Hometown: Jackson, MO (a tiny place in southeast Missouri)

Major: BA French & Italian, MA Writing and Publishing, PhD Literature & Media Studies

Three topics/ideas/issues that intrigue me: Environmental Humanities, Digital Environmental Media, Care-full living in the “Anthropocene”

Interesting/exciting bit of news I read today (or lately): West Virginia coal miners are becoming West Virginia food farmers, and they are converting mountaintop coal mines into restorative food-producing farms.