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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Mother Earth: Feminizing The Environment And Its Implications On Natural Resource Management

Eliza Weyman

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Transportation Education: Addressing High Schoolers concerns with Seattle Transit

Hailey Roberson

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Reshaping Climate Change Education for Elementary Students

Molly Rabus

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Raising the Curtain to Husbandry in Aquariums

Kendra Pearson

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

3 Barriers to Entering the Environmental Workforce and how to Remove them

Kina Painter

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Spring 2025 | Honorable Mention: Best Poster, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Protecting the Puget Sound: How Green Stormwater Infrastructure Can Save our Waters

Dylon Ongwiseth

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Spring 2025 | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Creating Sustainable Transit-Oriented Development: How Seattle Can Grow its Light Rail Network Sustainably

Callum Mitchell

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Green Minds: Environmental Education as a Catalyst for Eco-Conscious Values

Mayah Levy

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Spring 2025 | Best Poster, Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Oral History, TEK, and Trust: Multiple Ways of Knowing in the Climate Crisis

Hope Kuchan

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Spring 2025 | Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Salmon, Forests, and Fire: Barriers to Collaboration, Integration of Holistic Practice

Roy Jen

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Before We Engineer The Ocean: Reimagining Community Engagement in Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal

Chloe Jazvic

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Spring 2025 | Honorable Mention: Best Lightning Talk, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Clean Air Action: How Community-Driven Solutions Can Tackle Environmental Injustice in Policy Implementation

Megan Hassi

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Behind the Seams: Understanding Youth Attitudes Toward Sustainable Clothing and Textile Waste

Sammy Harrison

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Trash Talk: Zines, Waste Systems, and Environmental Justice in Seattle

Yifan Han

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Spring 2025 | Environmental Justice

The Hidden Health Risk Next Door: Tackling Urban Noise with Resonator-Enhanced Barriers

Sarah Doolittle

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Spring 2025 | Arts & Humanities, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

The Language of Justice: Participation, Knowledge, and Power in Environmental Policy

Shannon Cosgrove

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Spring 2025 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Redlining Today: Greenspace Inequity, the Detrimental Effects of It and How the City of Seattle Confronts It

Kristina Gerard Canonizado

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Autumn 2024 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Emotion in Science: The Role of Emotion in Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Science Methods in Environmental Science

Zachary Flagler

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Are our Green Spaces Adequate? The Impact of Nature Immersion on Emotional Well-Being

Jaelyn Yanni

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges: Youth Entering Natural Resource Careers

Amy Whitham

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Autumn 2024 | Agriculture and Food Systems, Environmental Justice

Urban Agriculture: A Method for Reducing Food Insecurity in Seattle’s Food Deserts

Zoe Warren

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Autumn 2024 | Business & Sustainability, Environmental Justice

Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals: Opportunities and Challenges in the Arctic Region

Amber Wang

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Autumn 2024 | Business & Sustainability, Environmental Justice

Social Sustainability – The Unmapped Pillar at the University of Washington

Kellie Telis

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Bridging the Gap to Nature: Finding Solutions to Green Space Access Inequality

Chloe Stafford

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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice

Integrating Environmental Justice into NGOs: The Challenges and Opportunities

Natasha Shafer

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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Creating Green: Native Plant Restoration in Urban Spaces

Tess Petrillo

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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

What’s In a Name? Themes for Addressing Racist Language in Natural History Collections

Nile Peoples

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Autumn 2024 | Agriculture and Food Systems, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Top Barriers to Multifamily Composting: Matters of Accessibility & Justice

Evelyn Osburn

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Nature’s Wealth: Quantifying Benefits of Nature Exposure and Promoting Equitable Access through Policy

Chikita Nigam

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Autumn 2024 | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

How the Collective Impact Framework can Inspire Meaningful Partnership and Rapidly Advance a Sustainable Future

Mia Nelson

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Why Save Something You Don’t Care About? – The Importance Of Outdoor Environmental Education Programs For Kids

Haley Nelson

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Autumn 2024 | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Storytelling as Co-design: Reframing Participatory Design Methodologies and Frameworks for Indigenous-led Climate Justice Work

Kort Maeda

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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice

Unhoused People as Park Users: Their Perspectives and Needs

Michael Lu

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Barriers Hindering the Minority and Women-Owned Businesses to Reuse and Recycle Construction and Demolition Debris

Nha Khuc

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Autumn 2024 | Honorable Mention: Best Poster, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Awareness to Action: Fostering Empathy Through Immersive Learning in Climate Justice Education

Caroline Hale

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Autumn 2024 | Agriculture and Food Systems, Environmental Justice

Comparing Apples to Oranges… Fruit Preference & It’s Implications

Ella Gostisha

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Autumn 2024 | Business & Sustainability, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Know Your Audience: Creating Better Transit Systems through Co-Design with Community Stakeholders

Grace Georgitsis

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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

How to Achieve Transit-Oriented Development in an Equitable and Just Way

Sydney Elfstrom

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Autumn 2024 | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Thinking About Nature: How Forest Classrooms Foster Systems Thinking Skills in Preschoolers

Hana Chollar

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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

The Guidance of Salmonberries: How we can Reclaim Mother Nature as her Children and not her Antithesis

Ada Cashmere

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