ENVX Editors

All ENVX content is edited by students majoring in environmental studies at Lewis & Clark College, with oversight provided by ENVS Program contributing faculty. Below is basic information on all editors who have served on ENVX to date, including their bio, class year, and a link to their digital scholarship (DS) site. To see all posts produced by a particular editor, click on any editor’s name.

Alex Groher-Jick

Class of 2018 | DS website
Hi! I have lived my whole life in a small town outside Boston. I love my parents and my sister very much. I am an ENVS major at Lewis & Clark and I hope to get involved with law or policymaking somewhere down the line. Even though I love dogs, I have only ever had two pets and they were both gerbils. Interests include: playing, making, and listening to music; hiking, tele skiing, climbing and dancing.

Audrey Stuart

Class of 2017 | DS website
A senior environmental studies student, passionate about merging public policy, global action and environmental change. I enjoy traveling whenever possible and hope to work in global environmental policy one day.

Charlotte Copp

Class of 2018 | DS website
I am Charlotte Copp, a Senior at Lewis & Clark College. I have always been excited about stewardship in the outdoors and that is one of the many reasons I am an Environmental Studies major. The summer's of 2015- 2017 I was a Backcountry Caretaker at many campsites in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In the Fall of 2016, I studied abroad and did research in Iceland with a Climate Change program. This past year, I have built my Senior Thesis off of that research.

Julia Benford

Class of 2017 | DS website
My name is Julia Benford and I'm a senior Environmental Studies major at Lewis & Clark College. I'm passionate about food politics, urban planning, and public health. In the future, I hope to serve as a link between the public and policymakers, working to understand complex issues and create a more just world.

Lauren Scott

Class of 2016 | DS website
Hi there! Bonjour! Asalamm malikum! I am Lauren Scott, a senior Environmental Studies and French Studies double major at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. I am a Vermont native, but I like to fly far from the nest. I’ve spent time abroad in Paris, France during my gap year, relocated to Portland for college, and I studied abroad in Dakar, Senegal in the spring and summer of 2015. I am interested in language, discourse, place/space and environmental theory.

Nico Farrell

Class of 2019 | DS website
I'm majoring in Environmental Studies at Lewis & Clark with a concentration in Creation of Environmental Legislation Through Public Dialogue and Advocacy.

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 […]