Working within a co-leadership model, students and the faculty member responsible for the course will together map out a plan of action that will accomplish four central goals:

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1.) Broaden students’ knowledge about sustainability by enhancing their awareness of a broader range of experiences and entry points into sustainability challenges than is typically included in the ‘sustainability canon’;

 

2.) ​Develop students’ capacity to think across multiple forms of knowledge and ways of understanding sustainability, including those created by Indigenous communities;

 

3.) Model notions of reciprocity by seeking to honor and recognize the contributions of all students and participating community members and work towards building relationships that extend beyond the confines of the course;

 

4.) Create deliverables that will contribute to the School of Sustainability’s capacity to better represent intersectional perspectives in its approach to sustainability education.

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"I genuinely don't know how I created the course. But, I know the why. I wanted to create a space for multiple identities, specifically BIPOC to be represented in sustainability. I always wanted to see more people who like me in these fields, but the ones I saw were outside of my network. Essentially, I was emulating the world as I saw it while creating a space that included the ones who were left out.

 

Intersectional Environmentalism and Sustainability serves this purpose to educate and restore justice to the ones that environmental history left behind."

- William Walker VI, course creator 

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