Caroline Loomis, class of 2002, was one of the first class of Environmental Studies majors. In 2002-2003, she received the Compton Mentor Fellowship to work with urban garden and community food justice projects in Oakland and Berkeley, California. The Compton is a year-long fellowship awarded to graduating seniors, allowing them to carry out environmental and social projects of their design, with the guidance of a mentor in their chosen area of work. Over the course of the year, Caroline worked with a number of community-based organizations such as the Berkeley Food Policy Council, People's Grocery, local school gardens, Farm Fresh Choice, and the Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency Urban Gardening Institute. She helped to organize and facilitate food and justice retreats for youth from the San Francisco Bay Area, and she started a produce stand selling affordable, local, organic produce in a mixed-income neighborhood, on the future site of an urban garden.
Katrina Przyjemski, class of 2004, is a two time recipient of the $5,000 Morris K. Udall Award, awarded by the U.S. Congress Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation to undergraduate juniors and seniors for commitment to scholarship and advocacy in the areas of the environment, health and tribal policy. She is also a four time recipient of the Caroline Hill Scholarship Award and the Fleet Bank Evelyn & Albert Black Scholarship for academic excellence and commitment to public service. During her junior year abroad, in 2003, Przyjemski traveled to England, India, the Philippines, New Zealand and Mexico with the International Honors Program in Global Ecology. Her environmental studies focus is in philosophy and she is interested in animal advocacy and the connections between environment and economic justice.
