My name is Maya Williams and I am a senior at St. Lawrence
University. As part of a “community based learning” component for a course I am
taking on local food and farming, I am volunteering with GardenShare.
For the
next three months, I will explore how a local nonprofit is managing issues of
hunger and access to healthy food in the North Country. I am particularly
interested in community outreach and involvement in the organization, as I
believe it is vital to the success of the project.
As an Environmental Studies
and Geology major, I hope to someday pursue environmental education, fostering
appreciation and stewardship of the natural world. Outside of GardenShare and
school, I am on the rowing team, where incredible morning sunrises on the St.
Lawrence River make up for 5 am wakeups. I also love to hike, climb trees, and
collect rocks (hence the geology major).
Currently, my favorite book is Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn. If you haven’t read it, you should. It will change the way you
think about the role humans have on this planet in new ways. Fresh beets are my
favorite vegetable, even though I refused to eat them until I was about 15.
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