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Federal Job Cuts Will Force us to Rethink How We Think About Working

In October, I called my friend Marc, a Barcelona native and my best friend when I lived in Spain for two years studying and working in outdoor education. When I asked him about his work, he told me, “Me he quedado sin trabajo.” I have found myself without a job. I laughed at the casual…
Gutting Public Lands Won’t Help the United States’ Mental Health Crisis

On February 13th, the White House created the Make America Healthy (MAHA) commision. Shortly thereafter, its policies on government downsizing gutted Forest Service and National Park staffing, yet the very chronic health issues MAHA claims to address are almost universally improved by access to the outdoors. According to the commission’s fact sheet, it will address…
Denying Trans Kids Care Won’t Save Hospitals’ Bottom Lines

On January 28th, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning gender-affirming care in the US for patients under 19. In the weeks since, Colorado hospitals like Children’s, Denver Health, and UC Health have stopped scheduling patients for this care, even though it reduces suicide rates, citing their need for federal funding, notwithstanding the fact Colorado’s…
We All Need to Do Some Digging

I was born because my father got kicked out of law school. A first generation college student, let alone graduate student, he had no financial support from his family, and he worked full time through his secondary and postsecondary education. After completing the first two years of his Juris Doctor at the University of Colorado…
Why Would I Know How to Do This?

I once took an undergrad outdoor education pedagogy course in which a classmate taught a lesson on quantum physics as his final. We had no test; instead, the professor wanted us to blend feedback we’d received on lesson plans and micro-lessons we’d submitted and taught over the semester into one, hour-long class on a subject…
John Quincy Adams Outfit

While I studied abroad in Bilbao, Spain, the war in Ukraine started. My Spanish university offered housing, Spanish language instruction, and student visas to fifty Ukrainian students, a move many of the professors blasted as a public relations stunt because no instructors at the university–even in the language center–spoke any of the same languages as…

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