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\u2018Cracking the World Open\u2019<\/h1>\n

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Alexandria Brown \u201918 says environmental humanities pointed her toward life as a
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Alexandria Brown \u201918. \u00a9 2020 MLIVE Media Group. Used with Permission.<\/p><\/div>\n

When Alexandria Brown \u201918 returned to the Flint, Michigan, region after graduation, she went home with a purpose: to tell the stories of how Flint residents were facing manifold challenges.<\/p>\n

A former manufacturing hub for the auto industry and an impoverished city with a majority Black population, Flint was still reeling from the 2014 decision by city leaders to draw water from the highly polluted Flint River. Added to that catastrophe were the living conditions resulting from a longtime economically distressed city run by state-appointed emergency managers, not representatives elected by the people.<\/p>\n

The state government\u2019s response to what happened in Flint was a result of systemic racism, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission ultimately concluded. Once back in Flint, Brown began writing for two local publications, Flintside<\/em> and Flintbeat<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy journalism was focused on the city of Flint from a \u2018solutions journalism\u2019 perspective. You\u2019re working on covering how people are solving these problems and in what ways they\u2019re responding to these issues.\u201d Such an approach \u201ccan draw attention to the intricacies of how people relate to their environment,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Brown grew up in the Flint suburbs as a bookish child. \u201cBooks were a transformative portal for me,\u201d she says. She arrived at Rochester as a Handler Scholar keen to study literature and to explore the past, becoming a double major in English and history. But it was her eventual declaration of an environmental humanities minor that she says has had an outsized influence in shaping her life plans.<\/p>\n

Environmental humanities melds humanities methodologies with the study of ecological issues. An area of growing scholarly interest, it\u2019s a relatively recent addition to Rochester\u2019s curriculum. The Environmental Humanities Program<\/a> was established in 2017, with Brown in its first cohort of students. \u201cIt offers an interdisciplinary understanding of the environment,\u201d says Brown. \u201cI think the program does an excellent job at bridging these worlds between the humanities and STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics]. I\u2019d be in class with students from so many disciplines\u2014biology or chemical engineering or anthropology, and everybody is coming to the table offering their thoughts and perspectives on these major themes.\u201d<\/p>\n

As someone raised in a fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household, Brown says her experiences as a university student shifted her perspective dramatically.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px” image_repeat=”no-repeat”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\u201cComing to college obviously can crack that world open for you in a lot of ways. I started becoming committed to finding the realities of things outside of myself, or at least trying to face them.\u201d<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px” image_repeat=”no-repeat”][vc_column_text]Her religious instruction had taught her that the Earth existed for human use. Her environmental humanities classes altered her view. \u201cWe weren\u2019t talking about the environment as something outside of ourselves but as something we were participating in and had effect over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her family\u2019s conservatism had taught her to be wary of \u201ctree huggers,\u201d she wrote recently in an autobiographical essay on the environmental humanities program\u2019s website. And race played a role in the distance she once felt from environmental questions, too. \u201cEnvironmental issues seemed even more out of touch for me as a Black person. Nature was wilderness. A location of sharecropping labor, King Cotton, and strange fruit. It was a landscape of struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gradually, she began to see connections between environmental and human exploitation, worldviews that \u201csanctioned elements of humanity and elements of an environment being for our use exclusively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seeing literature as a gateway to learning about the environment in courses taught by the environmental humanities program director, Leila Nadir, \u201cpiqued my interest,\u201d Brown says, and nonfiction texts\u2014such as Elizabeth Kolbert\u2019s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History<\/em> (Henry Holt and Company, 2014)\u2014got her thinking about other ways of telling stories. Her participation in a 2016 Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Rochester over the police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota gave that thinking a practical shape.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went. I took my camera with me that I won from a talent show, and I started taking pictures. I made a Facebook post about what I\u2019d seen there, and I realized that what I was doing\u2014 recording these events, being a witness to these things\u2014was an actual occupation known as journalism,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important to look beyond the headlines that a disaster like Flint\u2019s water crisis produces to see the complexities of the problems that underlie it, Brown contends. \u201cI think the instinct is to focus on the hype of any crisis and to essentialize that problem\u2014almost to its own detriment because then you get to the point where you\u2019re dehumanizing the situation, dehumanizing the circumstances, and you\u2019re also doing a disservice to the intricacies of what makes a city a place that can become vulnerable to something like that in the first place,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Nadir calls Brown\u2019s work in Flint an \u201cinspiration\u201d to current environmental humanities students. \u201cHer writing and activism demonstrate not only how deeply environmental problems are intertwined with social justice issues but also how to translate humanities degrees into meaningful postgraduation work.\u201d<\/p>\n

These days, Brown is working with the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition<\/a>, where she has accepted the position of Energy Democracy Justice Storyteller. She has also contributed to the organization\u2019s work as an energy justice interviewer, talking with people in Detroit and in Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula about their experiences with their energy providers.<\/p>\n

For a lot of people in Michigan, a state surrounded by four of the world\u2019s five Great Lakes, environmental questions are tightly bound up with water issues, Brown says. The data collection process she\u2019s contributing to has been eye opening, teaching her about energy justice and demonstrating the strong feelings many people have about their energy providers.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the unending learning process that attracted her, and still attracts her, to journalism, she says, and it\u2019s what she found in the interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities, too. \u201cThe point is to be constantly learning, constantly making connections, and having conversations with people who are not only different from you but also have a different wealth of understanding.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=”” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”25px” image_repeat=”no-repeat”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=”no” text_align=”left” background_color=”#e9e5d7″ css_animation=”” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=”10px” image_repeat=”no-repeat”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared in the spring 2021 issue of Rochester Review<\/a> magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2014 Written by Kathleen McGarvey<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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