Major in Global Environmental Studies
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Clark’s development studies programs rank No. 15 in world for academic reputation
’We are in really outstanding institutional company‘
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Kaiomi Inniss ’19 is hunger’s enemy
What do you see when you stand on a city street corner? Houses. Cars. People conducting a thousand daily routines. Kaiomi Inniss ’19 sees something very different. She sees a desert. The rising Clark senior is attuned to the lack of fresh, nutritious food available to the residents of struggling urban neighborhoods, and has geared…
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Singer Olivia Schwartz ’19 raises her Vox and hears advice from a Clarkie
“I got out of my seat and started jumping around!” That’s atypical behavior for students using Clark University’s Goddard Library— inadvisable, really — but Olivia Schwartz ’19 couldn’t help herself. One day in February, the global environmental studies major was studying on the third floor when she learned she’d been nominated for the Independent Music Awards in the Love Song category.…
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A student writer’s take on disappearing rhinos
Elephants, sharks, and gibbons, oh my! Clark University undergraduate student Marissa Callender ’18 encountered them all during an environmental journalism and travel writing internship in Mossel Bay, South Africa – a coastal town about 240 miles east of Cape Town. Working for Africa Media, Callender researched, wrote, photographed and pitched stories about issues facing communities…
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Africa internship offered personal and global discovery for Marissa Callender
Clark University undergraduate Marissa Callender recently experienced a summer of firsts. It was the first time she traveled alone to a new continent; the first time she snapped a selfie with an elephant; the first time she met an Olympic gold medalist; and the first time she came face-to-face with a great white shark. “When I…
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Olivia Schwartz ’19 finds a harmonic blend of performance and practice
Olivia Schwartz ’19 blended her passions — for music and the environment — to hit the perfect note with her LEEP project. Schwartz, a global environmental studies major and musician herself, interned with REVERB, a nonprofit organization that helps major music acts lead more environmentally sound tours. Specifically, she worked on the group’s Farm-to-Stage Program based in Portland, Maine. The…
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Undergraduate helping to power up community with solar nonprofit
Krissy Truesdale '19 started Solar for Our Superheroes as a high school student. Now at Clark, she's making it shine