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Representatives from each of the recipient organizations will be on hand to help unload your vehicle and sort the donations while you enjoy refreshments.School Tools PacketsWe provide all of the materials needed to hold a drive at your faith community or organization. to request a packet in the mail or download the documents below to help promote this drive at your faith community or organization.By the NumbersEach year, we collect new backpacks, calculators, and other school essentials to benefit school children from low-income and homeless families being served through nine different programs in the East Metro.Just one of these partners, the St. Paul Public Schools Title 1 Program for Homeless Children and Families, serves nearly 2,000 homeless students each year.Last year, together with 27 area faith communities, plus individual donors, we collected more than $20,000 of school supplies filling 525 backpacks for local students in need.Supply ListHigh priority supplies  Backpacks, 3-ring binders, Calculators, Facial tissueOther supplies needed  Spiral notebooks, Composition notebooks, Pencils, Pens, Markers, Folders, School boxes, Erasers, Highlighters, Pencil sharpeners, Colored pencils, Rulers, Glue sticks & bottles, Loose-leaf paper, Scissors, Crayons, USB Flash DrivesDonateWe use monetary donations to purchase needed supplies not collected at the drive.

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The big research questions that interest me revolve around the interactions of humans with the environment, especially those involving land transformation: the how and why of land use and land cover change, and the implications of these changes for ecosystems and human societies. Additionally, I am interested in how society encounters the natural world through disaster. Much of my research is based in Haiti, where I lived and worked prior to graduate school, and where I continue to visit as frequently as possible.gas guzzler backpack Land transformation is exceedingly important in Haiti, which has been an agrarian nation since its inception yet also is increasingly urbanized. Deforestation, a global concern, is seen as especially critical in Haiti. In one current study I seek to understanding why land transformation has occurred in a mountainous region of Haiti that has been devastated by numerous fatal flash flood disasters.

The explanations given by residents of the region differ markedly from the “received wisdom” as exemplified in the media and other outlets. How do the explanations differ, and why? What are the implications of accepting one set of explanations or the other? Haiti has seen more than its fair share of disasters in recent years. This is of little surprise since one of the key “ingredients” for a disaster is a vulnerable human community that encounters a hazard. Haiti’s poverty makes its communities exceptionally vulnerable to earthquakes, flash floods, mud flows, and other hazards of the environment. Currently, I am interested in how Haiti’s “informal” assistance sector—generally people’s family and friends—provides material aid following disaster. What lessons might the formal aid sector—governments and relief groups and the like—adapt from the informal sector? My research following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti suggests that 1) the informal aid sector plays nearly as large a role as the formal sector, and 2) that the informal sector’s preference for cash transfers over aid-in-kind (like food aid) is welcomed by aid recipients (and, in addition, helps support the local economy).

I am also very interested in how we teach geography and environmental studies, especially in a liberal arts fashion that encourages critical thinking, problem-solving, writing, and developing values. Some of my most recent research focuses on pedagogy in geography, especially related to two of my courses, GEG/ENV-250 Nature and Society and GEG-242 Research Methods in Geography. Beyond academic geography, I love to travel, garden, read, backpack, and be with family. Currently, seeing the world as it is discovered by my young children is my greatest joy.EducationB.A. Eastern Mennonite University; M.S. Oregon State University; Ph.D. Clark UniversityAreas of ExpertiseHaiti, human-environment interactions, land change, remote sensing, disasters, and political ecology GEG-105Physical Geography Lab132014/FA, 2014/SP, 2013/FA, 2013/SP, 2012/FA, 2012/SP, 2011/FA, 2011/SP, 2010/SP, 2009/FA, 2009/SP, and 2008/FAGEG-105Physical Geography122014/FA, 2014/SP, 2013/FA, 2013/SP, 2012/FA, 2012/SP, 2011/FA, 2011/SP, 2010/SP, 2009/FA, 2009/SP, and 2008/FAGEG-250Nature & Society52014/FA, 2013/FA, 2013/SP, 2012/FA, and 2011/FAENV-250Nature & Society52014/FA