Name: Conservation, Community, and Connection
Start: 2021-10-22T14:15:00-0400
End: 2021-10-22T15:00:00-0400

On campus and virtually, Mount Holyoke students welcome you to the LEAP Symposium!

Conservation, Community, and Connection

Amidst a year of isolation, great human suffering, and ecological degradation, our group finds a way forward through our commitment to the interconnectivity of nature, humanity, and community. As individuals coming from diverse fields of study, we come together to share the ways in which we have each participated in different forms of conservation and community work and to highlight their interwoven nature. We will discuss a wide range of internships: working on school girl art at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum, learning veterinary skills at the Cape Wildlife Center, constructing a culturally significant native plant garden with the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, protecting native bird species through Citizen Science programs at the Latodami Nature Center, and studying the concept of neglect in literature and its relationship to tropical diseases at the University of Pittsburgh. We are excited to share these vital connections with you and hope you will join us!

Moderators

Renae Brodie

Presenters

Beck Apicello

Neglected Tropical Diseases - Emphasis on the 'Neglect.'

This summer, I worked as a research assistant to a team based out of the University of Pittsburgh. My team was composed of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professors in different stages of their careers. We looked at neglected tropical diseases, both as a category... Read More →

Maya Nightsky Rosensweet

Nurturing the Ancients: Conservation Work in the Highlands of Roan

This summer, I interned for the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, a nonprofit committed to protecting some of the Appalachians’ rarest ecosystems. I gained firsthand experience in conservation fieldwork with professionals of many backgrounds, which directly supported my... Read More →

Lilly Saitz

Rebellious Hope: Bluebirds and Bee Boxes

After a year away from school due to COVID-19, I set out on a search to find something new, exciting, important, and intellectually stimulating. That search led me to the Latodami Nature Center, where I worked as a Resource and Habitat Management Intern. Of my many responsibilities... Read More →

Evelyn Foster

Schoolgirl Art at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum: Bridging the Past and Present

My presentation will reflect on my summer at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum. This historic museum is quite unique given that it was continuously occupied by a single family from its construction in 1972 to 1949 when the Museum was opened to the public. The family left behind... Read More →

Haley Shaw

Caring for Critters at the Cape Wildlife Center

This summer, I completed an internship at the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, MA. The Cape Wildlife Center is a non-profit organization that provides veterinary care to sick and injured wildlife, and they also provide training for individuals who want to become wildlife rehabilitators... Read More →

Friday October 22, 2021 2:15pm - 3:00pm EDT
Cleveland L3

Session III

LEAP Symposium 2021