Natural Resource Management

Fellow

Landry Guillen

2024 Fellow
Landry Guillen is a first-generation graduate student and Master of Forestry candidate at Yale School of the Environment. Her interests exist at the nexus of urban and community forestry, regenerative food systems, and environmental justice...
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Ataya Cesspooch

2024 Fellow
Ataya is an enrolled citizen of the Fort Peck Sioux and Assiniboine Tribes and a descendant of the northern Ute Tribe from the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in northeastern Utah. Her dissertation work examines the complex and contradictory...
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Fen Levy

2024 Fellow
Fen is an avian ecologist unraveling how forested landscapes can jointly support ecosystems and human need. Their work centers around the North Woods, a unique mosaic of 10 million acres of largely private commercial forestland in present...
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Alejandra Cano

2024 Fellow
Alejandra Cano is a transnational emerging scholar cross-pollinating Indigenous ways of knowing, agroecology, and ecological economics to conserve stingless honeybees.
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Natalie Baillargeon

2024 Fellow
Natalie Baillargeon received a BA in Environmental Science & Policy from Smith College, where she studied how ecological systems are influenced by land use and climate change. She works as a Policy Analyst at Woodwell Climate Research...
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Chelsea Kirk

2024 Fellow
Chelsea Kirk is the Director of Policy and Advocacy for the Building Equity and Transit team at Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, a nonprofit dedicated to building community leadership and power for economic justice. Chelsea's work...
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Steele’s Friends of the Verde River wins ASU Resilience Prize

Friends of the Verde River was recognized as the 2022 winner of the statewide Resilience Prize for its collaborative, data-driven work to ensure the long term health of one of Arizona’s last free-flowing rivers. The annual prize, awarded by...
April 24, 2024
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Melinda Adams podcast: When Fire Speaks: Traditional Ecological Practices in Action

Melinda Adams recently spoke to the Climify podcast about the value of a place-specific, Indigenous-led stewardship approach to burns.They summarize: “How do we learn from the land and its lineage? In this special bridge episode, Dr...
March 18, 2024
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Lave captures socio-ecological history of flooding in Wisconsin via news archives

“Wisconsin’s Driftless Area, an unglaciated region defined by steep river valley systems, has been plagued by chronic flooding in part due to Euro-American agricultural practices and anthropogenic climate change. The region, which has played a central role in environmental knowledge production, has a storied history of resilience practices and flood experience.”
December 22, 2023
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Parker in NYT Magazine: The Scientists Watching Their Life’s Work Disappear

“All the terrible things I’ve seen, all the detrimental changes to the environment, all the impacts of climate change — I use it to fuel my motivation to be a better scientist, to be a better human being, to be a better steward of the land. And honestly, part of it is anger. That’s fuel, OK? I get mad, and I turn that anger into fuel that motivates me.”
November 27, 2023