Meet ENVX contributor Kiaora Motson! 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 2019 | DS websiteMy name is Kiaora Motson and I am a sophomore Environmental Studies major at Lewis & Clark College. While it's difficult to say exactly what draws me to this discipline, I can confidently say I feel a sense of excitement, satisfaction, and wonderment as I learn more and more about this topic. In addition to Environmental Studies, I love yoga, hiking, and everything related to food (growing, cooking, eating!). |
The Environmental Studies Program challenges students to situate their research, bringing abstract concepts about environmental studies down to earth in observable contexts. After creating a broad foundation of scholarship that inform our overall framing questions, we focus on places where these interdisciplinary forces touch down, looking at the impacts whe … |
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 … |