January 31 – The 2022-2023 Adventure Learning Grant Recipients

Kate Conway, William Hinkel, and Jericho Leavitt

Jericho Leavitt is currently senior at Fairhaven College. He is a writer, photographer, and journalist.

Kate is a Fairhaven student and lover of food, their trusty bicycle Louise, and dirt. They are interested in food justice and sustainable and transformative food systems.

Wil Henkel is a senior at Fairhaven College, and a recipient of the Adventure Learning grant in 2022-2023. His concentration is titled, Healing Through Reciprocity with the Land: A Narrative Shift in Settler Consciousness. He calls the Nooksack Watershed home and is happiest when on the river.

Jericho: I will present on the journalistic, advocacy work I did winter of 2023 as a recipient of the Adventure Learning Grant. I will be discussing the situation and experiences of displaced people attempting to enter the EU through Serbia and Eastern Europe.

Kate: I will be sharing some of my experiences on the ALG in Mexico, including the generative and abundant experience of non-knowing. I will explore this experience through the lens of relationship- to food, to land, to people.

Wil: Nooksack to Napo and Back Again: bi-hemispheric watershed relations from the lost rainforests of the Salish Sea to the headwaters of the Amazon. Wil focused on localized riverine contexts of globalized extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon. His film Rio Pusuno: Meet the Community, a collaboration with Ecuadorian mentor Diego Robles and filmmaker Ben Stookesberry was featured in the Kendal Mountain Film Festival in the U.K.