Check out the end result of Alexia Zolenski and Jackson Newman’s project, described here!
Jackson Newman – WCC Coordinator | Jackson is a master’s in environmental management candidate specializing in ecosystem conservation and management. Prior to Yale, Jackson was a community organizer in eastern Montana for a conservation and family agriculture non-profit. Jackson is particularly interested in private lands conservation, prairies, commodity markets, land ownership, restoration, and lots more. His favorite quote is “there are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land” by Aldo Leopold. See what Jackson has been up to | Blog
Alexia Zolenski – Research Assistant | Alexia (Lexi) Zolenski is a joint JD/Master of Environmental Management candidate at Yale School of the Environment and Vermont Law School. While in law school, she interned with the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center in Detroit, Michigan and was a summer associate at the nation’s foremost environmental law firm. Before law school, Lexi worked as a park ranger for the National Park Service at Utah’s Zion National Park and Alaska’s Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, where she could be spotted giving enthusiastic interpretive programs, imploring park visitors to “not bust the crust” and “give plants a chance,” or snowshoeing down a steep pitch along the South Klondike Highway on her way to conduct a snow survey. Her interests bridge the sciences and the arts, the local and the global, and include environmental justice, international environmental law, public lands, and facilitating compassionate conversation between stakeholders—particularly in western landscapes. Lexi received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Notre Dame, double majoring in Biological Sciences and History. She is a connoisseur of coffee and biscuit breakfast sandwiches, prefers sedimentary rock over metamorphic or igneous, and will hike up any hill in her immediate vicinity. You can reach Alexia at alexia.zolenski@yale.edu