Geography alumni Jimena Perez '23 and Lizet Garcia '23 credit the Mellon Mays Fellowship with helping them network with graduate programs to pursue a PhD and further their research.
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Garcia wrote that it was important to "do the work to denaturalize these structures but at the same time work towards a better future," they said. Garcia intends to focus on ideas that "center care and love and center youth voices."
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"I still write 'geographer' when I have to indicate my profession on a form."
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"[...]My career geographic interest in this region all started with an Environmental Studies 'FSP' to Kenya back in 1982. We subsequently lived in Kenya for almost 5 years and our second child was born there."
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"Geography at Dartmouth was my introduction to thinking about why place matters."
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