Testimonials
“Getting kids outside, in their environment, helping them to be able to actually name stuff and to be able to do water quality testing- that really having a sense of owning a place and taking care of a place has been really important for my students.”

- Deborah Jose, Teacher, Newton High School

Joanna recently graduated from Denison University (Granville, OH) where she majored in English and also studied Spanish and music. She spent the summer of 2006 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, as an editorial intern at The Rodale Institute, a non-profit organization which conducts research in organic farming. During her senior year at Denison, Joanna combined her interests in sustainability and literature in her honors senior research project on the works of Wendell Berry and Barbara Kingsolver. Her interest in the relationships between the health of ecosystems and the health of human communities drew her to UEI. A native Hoosier, she looks forward to exploring (and getting lost in) Boston. Joanna enjoys singing, reading, granny smith apples, and playing in creeks.