Adam M. Romero’s Economic Poisoning wins Outstanding Publication award

IAS faculty member Adam M. Romero's new book, Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of Agriculture, has received a 2022 Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Outstanding Publication Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology. ...

February 28, 2022

Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow Receives Beulah Rose Poetry Prize

Last week venerable literary journal Smartish Pace named IAS alum Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, 2014) the winner of its 19th annual Beulah Rose Poetry Prize. Her poem "the what inside the thing made kin" will appear in the Summer 2022 issue of the journal alongside the other winners and finalists. ...

February 24, 2022

Kyra Laughlin helps launch medical advocacy services for sexual assault survivors

IAS alum, Kyra Laughlin (Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies and Society, Ethics & Human Behavior, 2018, Master of Arts in Policy Studies 2019), has successfully partnered with the community-based organization Rebuilding Hope to implement King County’s only in-person medical advocacy program for sexual assault victim-survivors. ...

February 23, 2022

Ching-In Chen publishes “Inside me, more family”

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s poem “Inside me, more family” was published in Concision Poetry Journal, a triannual online literary magazine which publishes work interested in the socio-political influences on ...

February 22, 2022

Jennifer Atkinson and Bee Elliot featured in Taking the Heat

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson and alum Bee Elliot are featured in a new book called Taking the Heat: How Climate Change Is Affecting Your Mind, Body, and Spirit. In the book’s opening chapter, author Bonnie Schneider profiles Atkinson’s class on Climate Anxiety and Hope ...

February 15, 2022

Megan Dunn: Passion meets policy

“All of the change I pushed for in the environmental world was tied to policy, so I needed that background to carry out the change I advocated for,” says Master of Arts in Policy Studies alum Megan Dunn.

February 14, 2022

Kari Lerum: “Counter-cultured Girlhoods”

IAS faculty member Kari Lerum was invited by the Henry Art Gallery to write a response to an exhibition of photographs and paintings (showing Feb. 4, 2022-May 29, 2022) entitled “Double Dare Ya: Burns, Kurland, & Ross-Ho.” As part of ...

February 11, 2022