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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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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Reinventing Recycling: How Drop-off Sites Can Engage Consumers and Keep Recyclables Out of the Landfill

Alec Baron

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Autumn 2024 | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Toxic Tech: Washington’s Path to a Sustainable Electronics Recycling System

Elena Vega de Soto

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2013 Spring | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Quantification of Environmental Justice Communities and the EPA

Byron Wenning

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2013 Spring | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Burning Passions: Woodstove Emissions, Tribal Sovereignty, and EPA Regulation

Sarah Sanborn

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2013 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Environmental Justice

Developing Muckleshoot Community-Based Food Policy

Jennifer Marcello

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2013 Spring | Arts & Humanities, Environmental Justice

Growing Green Correction Facilities

Sophie Hart

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2013 Spring | Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Air Pollution and Environmental Justice in EPA Region 10

Carlos Cruz

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2013 Spring | Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice in the Duwamish Valley

Ruben Chi Bertoni

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2011 Spring | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Goods Movement Mapping for Environmental Justice: Examining Freight Impacts

Kara Tebeau

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2011 Spring | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Landfill Burning on Tribal Lands: Recognizing the Effects on Human and Ecosystem Health

Rachel Kahn

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2011 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: Impacts on Human and Environmental Health

Melanie Gillette

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2013 Autumn | Environmental Justice, Natural Science & Restoration

Snow Leopard Enterprises: Empowering Women through Community-Based Conservation

Marika Wegerbauer

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2013 Autumn | Arts & Humanities, Environmental Justice

Beautiful and Resilient

Cara Moser

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2013 Autumn | Environmental Justice

The Big, the Little, & the Middle

Hannah Arvin

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2010 Autumn | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Identifying Goods Movement Air Toxics in Underserved Populations in EPA Region 10

Shanese Bien

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2012 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Are you being unknowingly exposed to toxic chemicals?

Michael Ridgely

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2012 Spring | Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice, Policy & Regulation

Tribal Erosion-Creating a Road Map Forward

Lydia Minehan-Tubic

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2012 Spring | Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Tribal Communities and Environmental Stewardship

Electra Magnuson

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2012 Spring | Agriculture and Food Systems, Arts & Humanities, Education & Outreach, Environmental Justice

Coffee for Water and other Social Enterprises Impact on Society

Cody Kendrick

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