Graduate student
Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment
Durham, North Carolina, United States
A longtime herder of chickens and children as well as a lifelong admirer of the woods, Emma Childs is a second-year graduate student at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University studying forestry and ecosystem science & conservation. She is originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains around Asheville, NC. She studied animal science and agricultural development at Berry College and has spent the last decade farming, working at a community garden to pizza cafe, teaching in environmental education settings, and organizing grassroots conservation projects at a variety of non-profits. Emma was drawn back to school following many years away to pursue an MF degree after learning more about the connections between forest health, habitat, food systems, and climate resilience, all while pondering who has access to forests and who gets to own land in the United States. She is particularly interested in rural working lands economies, restoration ecology, thoughtful forest management and land use that overlaps agriculture, wildlife, and conservation, as well as community health. To make sense of her technical geospatial classes, she quilts different maps of forests and watersheds in her free time. Projects that center the collective flourishing of our shared home on this planet bring her the greatest joy.
Friday, September 20, 2024
9:10 AM – 9:18 AM MST
