Ajna Weaver

Meet ENVX contributor Ajna Weaver! Below you’ll find a brief bio, class level, and a digital scholarship (DS) site link, where you can read more about their work at Lewis & Clark College. Below this information are all ENVX posts featuring this contributor to date; click on any post title to view the full post. To return to all contributors, click here.

Class of 2017 | DS website

My name is Ajna Weaver. I am in perpetual awe. I am currently a Rhetoric & Media Studies major and Environmental Studies minor at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Combining these fields, I am interested in exploring the ways people talk (or don’t talk) about the socio-ecological contexts our lives are woven within. My research interests are vast, so please explore my site to see the various projects and courses I have devoted my energy to. No matter what I am exploring, I am passionate about integrating creative expression and artistic, alternative outcomes into my academic work. I am constantly changing and embrace dialogue in that process. Let's converse!

ENV-?: Crossing Boundaries in Environmental Studies | April 4, 2016

At Lewis & Clark, the Environmental Studies Program is interdisciplinary–drawing from and synthesizing multiple branches of knowledge. In the context of ENVS, interdisciplinarity has a particular significance because it allows us to move outside our preconceived notions of what an environmentally-based program should look like. Many people believe that …

Situating Environment, Imagining Worlds: ENVS Honors Theses 2017

We are proud of all nineteen graduating ENVS seniors this year: they were a great bunch of students to work with over the last four years, and grew tremendously during this time. We’d like to honor four graduating seniors in particular—Lex Shapiro, Jesse Simpson, Hannah Smay, and Drew Williamson—who successfully completed all requirements for honors […]

Environmental Engagement: Bridging Thought and Action

There’s a new course in the ENVS major effective spring 2017: it’s called Environmental Engagement (ENVS 295)—read the About page on our new site, ds.lclark.edu/envs295/, for an overview. When I reflected at the start of spring semester on what environmental engagement means, I looked at the etymology of engagement to suggest three key features: Here is one rather […]

Art, Technology, and Hope in the Anthropocene

ENVS Program seniors take two semesters to complete a capstone project. The options for what students can study are limitless, as are their outcomes: some produce a thesis (see here for spring 2017 honors theses), while others produce alternative outcomes. As two examples of the latter, Marielle Bossio and Kara Scherer audaciously push the boundaries […]

Digital Scholarship Websites: A Scholarly Journal

Designing and creating a scholarly website is a skill that environmental studies majors are taught during their second semester in the program. It can be tedious and difficult to constantly work on and baby the site to meet professional expectations. Three ENVS class of 2017 seniors, Marielle Bossio, Perri Pond, and Kara Sherer, have gone the […]

Grass and Concrete: Built Environments Overseas

Does the phrase “built environment” strike you as odd? When thinking about the word “environment,” does your brain conjure up images of sweeping meadows and lush green forests? Consider this: Cities provide a habitat, of sorts, for billions of people worldwide. Many different species live in and interact with human-built spaces, just as many different […]

The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Struggling to Complicate Environmentalism

This past Monday, I began my internship at Environment Oregon, Oregon’s largest environmental non-profit. I imagine this sentence will set off many red flags for anyone involved in the ENVS Program at Lewis and Clark; after all, the name practically oozes classical environmentalism and oversimplification. I actually am very excited about my internship despite this. Admittedly, this is mostly because […]

Class of 2017 | DS website

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