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Environment and Geography Fall 2025 Newsletter
If you鈥檙e interested in an environmental career but are unsure what to pursue, please join us for the Careers in Geography & Environmental Studies Speaker Series. To help us celebrate GIS Day this month, we welcome Yelena Zelmanov, a GIS analyst and geographer working at Citibank. She鈥檒l discuss her role as a GIS analyst for several public and private organizations and how to pursue a GIS-related career.
Tuesday, November 18, at 12:00pm in SBSB 1108.
The Program welcomes Professor Shannon Switzer Swanson. Professor Swanson is a social
ecologist focusing on community-based ocean resource management.
Professor Valle's new book is now available.Gardening at the Margins was published by University of Arizona Press.
His article Reframing the Sustainable Diet Narrative: Shifting Diets by Confronting Systemic Racism" is included in The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets edited by Kathleen Kevany and Paolo Prosperi. New York, NY: Routledge.
Here are some of Professor Valle's other work in case you are interested:
- "The Past in the Present: What our Ancestors Taught us about Surviving Pandemics." Food Ethics 6(7). .
- 鈥淟earning to Be Human Again: Being and Becoming in the Home Garden Commons.鈥 Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. .
Juliana Goodlaw Morris has an article in press with The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, titled "No Sustainability without Justice: An Anthology on Racial Equity and Social Justice."
Professor Simokat was named the 爆料社区 President's Outstanding Lecturer! AND, she received a Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Grant for her Pollinator research!! And she just submitted another research grant with Geography Professor and Steering Committee Member Elizabeth Ridder. Congratulations Christina!!!
Professor Guthey published an article in The California Geographer focused on the Sustainable Food Project on campus and titled ""
Professors Valle and Guthey recently received a grant from the for a research project on Redlining and Food Apartheid.
They also are continuing their work along with Professor Matthew Atherton and Professor Jill Weigt in the Social Sciences Program on their CSU Chancellor's Office-funded project to promote food literacy and support Student Basic Needs on campus!
If you haven't done so already, check out Professor Valle's other book:
Winner of Two Awards!
- 2017 Best Edited Volume by the Society for the Study of Food and Society
- 2018 Essential Reading by the American Library Association
Congratulations Professor Valle!
