by Maria DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
Last fall, I moved to southern Italy—a big jump for someone who had never left the eastern side of the North American continent. I had graduated in May and was beginning the Fulbright Scholarship to do independent research with a university in Calabria. I moved to the...
by Maria DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
Like most young people involved in activism, I have too frequently heard the dreaded phrase that reduced my passion to naiveté: “Just wait until you enter the real world.” Back in my early days of advocacy, I told myself I would never allow my hope to fall victim to...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Yelena Odintsova. I couldn’t help but scroll back to the image I just passed on Instagram. I was looking at a graphic of a brown sole coming down on, as if wanting to stomp and crush, a person. ‘BEYOND INDIVIDUAL BLAME’, read the graphic, with a...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. I was once a student on a college campus, and I’ve been around people like Perry Dripps, the Sustainability Engagement Program Coordinator at the Penn State Sustainability Institute that worked to empower...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Mike Jones. Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. In July, I came across an article in The Guardian about the eco-gender gap, which essentially speaks to the ways that saving the world, at least on an environmental level, is deemed to...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Black Light Media. If there is anything that has made me pause a few times this week, it is the photograph taken by Konstantinos Tsakalidis that’s circled mass media as well as social media. An old woman with wildfires raging behind her in the village of...
