Writing and Projects

My English senior thesis analyzes Alice Walker's The Color Purple. It looks at how in the novel, moving toward a queer, nonhierarchical family structure is paralleled with a healing of relationships with the natural world.

In my senior Environmental Studies seminar titled "Understanding the Human Place in Nature," I created a video project on the health impacts of fracking in Canonsburg, PA. There has been a cluster of childhood cancer cases thought to be linked to fracking. I spoke with community members about anti-fracking activism in the area, and how their work challenges traditional definitions of environmentalism.

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I was selected to write about my experience as a Presidential Fellow for the Fall 2019 issue of Dickinson Magazine.