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Madeline McGill is a political scientist and narrative strategist living in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the unceded lands of the Eastern Shoshone and Goshute peoples. As an organizer and strategist, she has worked with organized labor, candidates for office, and advocacy organizations across the country on building campaigns that are committed to storytelling and transformational organizing strategy. Madeline moved to Utah in 2019 to help found the Rural Utah Project, bringing their fundraising and communications programs online. Since, she has worked as a freelance organizer and consultant, building, learning, and dreaming across the Mountain West.

Natalie Slater is a second year student and Mellon Community Engagement Fellow. In partnership with the nonprofit Art Access, Natalie created and is facilitating an artist collaborative called Embodied Ecologies that looks at environmental health issues in Salt Lake from the lenses of environmental justice and disability justice.

Carlos Gray Santana is a philosopher of science and an EH affiliated faculty member. Carlos is a consulting conceptual engineer, meaning he helps scientists address conceptual issues in their fields. His research addresses key issues in the sciences, such as the Anthropocene, novel ecosystems, and science and democracy.

How do the land and cultural landscapes of the West Desert, bicycling and the Environmental Humanities intersect? EH alumni Bobby Kennedy has it all figured out.

Maya Kobe-Rundio, Environmental Humanities master’s student, received one of the two Floyd O’Neil Fellowships for 2021-22. This fellowship will support her research related to the Greater Sage Grouse.