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Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program

This May (2007), Antioch University’s Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program launched its new congressional fellowship in cooperation with the 72-member US Congressional Progressive Caucus. Antioch’s Fellowship will allow at least one EAOP student to work in Washington DC for the Caucus and its members every summer. “This is the start of a great, mutually beneficial collaboration between the CPC and ANE students and faculty,” CPC Co-Chair U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) noted. “ANE’s Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program graduate students will help CPC Members address a wide variety of environmental challenges from global warming to environmental justice.”

The first Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program student to be selected by the US Congressional Caucus to serve as a Fellow is Crissy Heide, who will work with Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ, 7th Congressional District), who chairs the House Committee on Natural Resources’s Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands. Rep. Grijalva also heads the Progressive Caucus’s Environment Task Force and has been recognized as a leader in environmental conservation by the Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife. As he said of Crissy, “I am honored to participate with the Congressional Progressive Caucus in Antioch University’s Environmental Advocacy and Organizing Program’s Fellowship, and I welcome this year’s Fellow, Crissy Heide.”

In her journal entries and photos, Crissy will share her summer of learning and legislative activism in our nation’s capitol.

Learn more about Crissy Heide

Crissy came to Antioch’s EAOP after two years of working in the field of environmental education in rural New Jersey. During her graduate studies, she has organized Keene’s Earth Day Festival, the recent Step It Up Congress Rally in Keene, worked on Sierra Club’s Cool Cities Campaign, chaired Antioch’s Student Alliance, and has worked with Rhode Island’s Valley Alliance for Smart Growth to ensure wetlands protection on lands slated for big-box-store development. Crissy was raised in Indiana, where she graduated from Lafayette Jefferson High School and received a BS in Wildlife Science from Purdue University.

Last Updated: 6/18/07