Lots of Graduations to Celebrate!!!

December 2022 - News update

Congratulations to our many Athena Collective members who have successfully graduated in recent months and years. Your hard work, amazing projects, and perseverance through the pandemic has been exceptional!

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Sara Black, Ph.D. Grow Food, Not Prisons: Innocence and Abolitionist Geographies in the Hudson Valley (December 2022, Rice chair, Trauger committee member).Sara is currently the Administrative Organizer for Sweet Freedom Farm and the Executive Director for the Hudson Community Development and Planning Agency.

Rachelle Berry, Ph.D. (Re)Claiming Black Geographies from the University’s Plantation (December 2022, Rice chair, Trauger committee member). Rachelle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at East Carolina University.

Maya Henderson, M.A. Carbon Colonialism in the 'Green' City: Colonial and Capitalist Social Relations in Urban Climate Action (August 2022, Rice chair, Trauger committee member)

Estefanía Palacios (Geography, 2022) “Individually, we are a Drop. Together, we are a River:” Analysis of Rural Women’s Participation in community water Systems in Ecuador. (December 2022, Rice and Trauger committee members, Ross chair)

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Gabrielle Lichtenstein (Geography, 2021) ‘Reclaim Our Power!’: The Geographies of Utility Justice in Northern California (November 2021, Rice chair, Trauger committee member)

Haley DeLoach (Geography, 2021) ‘The Park is the People:’ (Mis)representations of Nature and Indigeneity at the Mulu Park in Malaysia (May 2021, Trauger chair, Rice committee member)

Jennifer Rice is part of another successful History of Slavery at the University Of Georgia Community event.

May 2022 News update

Dr. Jennifer Rice was the planning committee chair for the May 21, 2022 “Tell the Whole Story” event, part of the History of Slavery at the University of Georgia (HSUGA) project. The event included a morning ceremony at Brooklyn Cemetery - one of the first African American cemeteries in Athens, GA, which is currently being restored. The afternoon/evening included archival readings of Athens Black history, music performances, and a screening of the Below Baldwin documentary at the historic Morton Theatre - one of the first African American built and owned vaudeville theaters. The fill program is here.

Images (left to right): Archival readings, the Linnentown quilt, drum and dance performace, Linqua Franqa.

February 7, 2020

Collective members Rachel Arney and Haley Deloach present at UGa’s Integrative conservation conference

Pictured: Rachel Arney presenting on the the role of ecological science in (re)producing the US-Mexico border crisis in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Haley DeLoach discussing the role of UNESCO in colonization of Indigenous lands in Malaysia