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Class of 2000
Heather Crawford I was born in Canada but grew up in the U.S. and Jamaica, where my family still lives. I first heard about Macalester when Jim Crowder from Admissions came to Kingston to recruit international students. I enjoyed my visit to the college and decided that the U.S. school system best suited my needs, hence I ended up at Macalester. I became an Environmental Studies major because it is something I have always felt strongly about and it was the only major that appealed to me. I am particularly interested in promoting wiser consumption of resources to reduce waste. This summer I plan to do a work abroad program in Costa Rica, and then who knows where the wind will carry me.
Megan Kelly I'm from Northfield, MN. I grew up in a town with two small liberal arts colleges, and knew that I wanted to go to that type of school. Macalester had a great academic, social, and athletic atmosphere. I have always been interested in the environment and pressing environmental issues, so I was interested in the environmental studies major from the beginning. I am also a geology major and have enjoyed learning about both of these fields and how they are related to one another. I am spending the summer working for Ramsey County Lake Management sampling lake waters and testing for water quality. Next year I hope to get a job with an environmental consulting firm. After a year off from school I am planning on attending a graduate school in an environmental geology related field.
Brian Kramer Economics and Environmental Studies with a Minor in Cartography/GIS. I chose to pursue Economics as it allowed me to examine a completely different way of thinking than most biology or geography classes. I believe that economic understanding is crucial for the future of the environmental movement, as money seems to be a common, universal language that affects environmental decision-making on an hourly basis. We must work to incorporate more accurate pricing of natural resources and work to better realize that natural areas and species protection has more than a simple dollar value equivalent to its extractive value. Non-use values are grossly under-represented in traditional analysis, and are increasingly being found to surpass use values by two-three fold! My future.......well in the short-run, I am going to direct the sailing and windsurfing program at a camp in Northern Wisconsin. Beyond August 31 I will be working on pursuing jobs around Chicago, IL, probably in the financial sector. Longer-term I hope to change the face of business, helping further notions of sustainability and pollution prevention within industry. Ok, either that or spend my days basking in the sunshine on the deck of my 45 foot Sailboat somewhere around the world. Anyone is welcome to stop by for a visit....I guarantee Jimmy Buffett will be playing on the CD player! Good luck everyone and let's stay in touch.
Kira Pascoe I am originally from Chicago, IL. I have always had an avid interest in the natural world. When I was 10, my family moved to Arizona where I saw open nature, saw wildness, and sensed true freedom for the first time. I learned not only about wilderness, but the dangers it faced as well. Imagining that land being destroyed for human greed -- and seeing some of it destroyed while I was there -- transformed me into an ecocentric conservationist. I have studied wilderness and been an environmental and social justice activist since I was 12, and am learning and becoming more of an activist everyday. I want to play a part in raising environmental awareness and moving society toward more sustainable living practices. I hope to do this through writing, activist work, education, lobbying, and I am basically willing to do whatever it takes to make a constructive change. I want to work with the root of the issues and make change from the bottom up as I think that is most effective. Currently, I have a job as an environmental educator in Minneapolis and am an intern at the Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development. In the future, I hope to have a role both as an educator and as an activist for change so I will be doing work like this, but more in-depth.
Andrea Tietmeyer After spending a week at home in Nebraska to attend my sister's high school graduation, I will be moving to Chicago to work for the Chicago Botanic Garden. I have a year-long internship in the endangered and native plant research department there, so I'll be able to do lots of field work, as well as indoor lab and research work. This will be a nice addition to my past research work during the summers with Prof. Davis. After this internship, I'll either do the graduate school thing in something like Conservation Biology, or go into the Peace Corp or something similar to that.
Sarah Ullmer I am a native of the sprawling state of Colorado. In my time at Macalester, I discovered my interest in environmental education and community development. Majoring in Environmental Studies seemed to be an avenue where I could pursue these interests. While at Mac, I have been very involved in raising environmental awareness on campus and teaching environmental education to kids at local schools. After graduation, I am working as the education program director of Camp Sunrise YouthCARE. In the fall I am moving up north to work at Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, a graduate program in environmental education. My ultimate vision combine my interests in environmental education, farming and community development. I am letting time decide how that is to be done.
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