About Michael Charendoff How would you describe your years at EUC, and did the program prepare you for your career? How? My time with EUC was inspiring, thought-provoking and thoroughly enjoyable! The MES program at EUC prepared me for my career by emphasizing the importance and effectiveness of cultivating creativity, embracing multi-disciplinary perspectives, and applying
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About Fariha Abedin Graduate Fariha Abedin (BES 2012), began developing her professional experience during her time at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) where she coupled experiential education opportunities with the interdisciplinary curriculum at the Faculty. Fariha completed her Bachelor of Environmental Studies degree at York University and went on to pursue a
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About Vero Diaz Vero Diaz proudly developed her network while at EUC with the support of committed professors. Vero joined the EUC community in 2013, after a friend recommended the program. While in the program, she wanted to focus on decolonial arts, and develop her network with arts communities within Toronto and Latin America. When
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About Jeff Kenny What is it about planning that you love? The permanence of the work as it relates to community building is what I enjoy most about planning. We spend years developing plans and ferrying them through incremental development approval processes which is at the best of times, tedious and frustrating. We spend years
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About James Marzotto In his grade 12 World Issues class, James Marzotto was inspired by his teacher to not only discuss global problems but to, take action. As a result, he decided to research post-secondary opportunities that would provide him with just that. During his search, Marzotto stumbled across the Bachelor in Environmental Studies program
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About Azam Khatam Azam is a Research Affiliate at the City Institute and an Instructor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies York University. She worked as a professional urban planner for fifteen years before she started her doctoral program. She received her PhD in June 2016 studying the convergence of developmentalism, worlding
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About Edith Steiner Since completing her doctorate, Edie Steiner has presented her research and media at conferences including How Class Works at the Centre for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook, 2016, and at Rust/Recovery: Works of Resistance, the 2017 conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Wayne
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About Sophia Sestito Before Sophia Sestito (BES, 2007), construction services company EllisDon did not have a go-to person to consult with for environmental management – fast-forward five years since Sophia joined the organization and an environmental department may very well be the next step. With multiple projects on-the-go – some days as many as 45
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About Pablo Bose Pablo taught during my last year of my PhD at Trent in International Development Studies and began a two-year SSHRC post-doc at the University of Vermont (UVM). In 2008, he started a tenure-track position at UVM and was granted tenure in 2015. He co-published a book with Peter Penz and Jay Drydyk
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About Jocelyn Thorpe Jocelyn Thorpe is an associate professor in women's and gender studies and history at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Her research draws from critical race, feminist, and environmental studies scholarship to examine the history and legacies of, as well as challenges to, colonialism in the Canadian context. She seeks to understand
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