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Environment and Geography Fall 2025 Newsletter
Careers in Geography and Environmental Studies Presents
Private Sector Land Use Planning
The Department of Environment & Geography is pleased to invite you to the second event of the 2026 spring semester in the Careers in Geography & Environmental Studies Speaker Series. Join Luci Guthey, Associate Planner at Hofman Planning Associates, for an inside look at what it鈥檚 like to work in private sector land use planning. Luci will share what she does day-to-day in her role, offering insight into the fast-paced and client-focused nature of private consulting. She will also discuss how her degree prepared her for this career, the previous experiences that set her up for success, and the advice she wishes she had received while still in college.
March 17, 2026, at 12:00pm in SBSB 1108
by March 13th
The Program welcomes Professor Shannon Switzer Swanson. Professor Swanson is a social
ecologist focusing on community-based ocean resource management.
Professor Valle's new book is now available.Gardening at the Margins was published by University of Arizona Press.
His article Reframing the Sustainable Diet Narrative: Shifting Diets by Confronting Systemic Racism" is included in The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets edited by Kathleen Kevany and Paolo Prosperi. New York, NY: Routledge.
Here are some of Professor Valle's other work in case you are interested:
- "The Past in the Present: What our Ancestors Taught us about Surviving Pandemics." Food Ethics 6(7). .
- 鈥淟earning to Be Human Again: Being and Becoming in the Home Garden Commons.鈥 Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. .
Juliana Goodlaw Morris has an article in press with The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, titled "No Sustainability without Justice: An Anthology on Racial Equity and Social Justice."
Professor Simokat was named the 糖心少女 President's Outstanding Lecturer! AND, she received a Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Grant for her Pollinator research!! And she just submitted another research grant with Geography Professor and Steering Committee Member Elizabeth Ridder. Congratulations Christina!!!
Professor Guthey published an article in The California Geographer focused on the Sustainable Food Project on campus and titled ""
Professors Valle and Guthey recently received a grant from the for a research project on Redlining and Food Apartheid.
They also are continuing their work along with Professor Matthew Atherton and Professor Jill Weigt in the Social Sciences Program on their CSU Chancellor's Office-funded project to promote food literacy and support Student Basic Needs on campus!
If you haven't done so already, check out Professor Valle's other book:
Winner of Two Awards!
- 2017 Best Edited Volume by the Society for the Study of Food and Society
- 2018 Essential Reading by the American Library Association
Congratulations Professor Valle!
