Overview

Crissy Heide

Notes from Crissy Heidi, Advocacy student
and Progressive Caucus Fellow

The Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability concentration builds on ANE's long-standing mission to provide transformative education that links the worlds of scholarship and activism. In this program, you will participate in a lively community of learners from around North America to deepen your:

ecological literacy
political education
social action skills
organization development competencies
self-knowledge and life-skills for the long haul

We feel such advanced activist training in grassroots organizing and nonprofit advocacy work is particularly needed now. Pushing the next wave of the environmental movement will require talented, scientifically-grounded, and politically-savvy activists working to tame the global economy; promote democratic reform of our political system; build new coalitions for innovative programs in ecological and community renewal; and create a new moral climate that combines a deep ecological concern with a strong commitment to social justice.

Here, you will learn from activists-in-residence, faculty who are advocacy practitioners, a participatory learning community of students, and individual service learning projects with advocacy groups around the country and world. At the end of two years, you will have earned more than a Master's degree in Environmental Studies, you will have developed the confidence, connections, skills, and insights, to make a significant long-term contribution to the field of environmental advocacy and organizing.

“The Advocacy Program is a unique gem in the academic world: a values-based training program for effective, progressive leadership. Its flexibility, its relevance to local, regional, national, and international issues, and its holistic approach to analyzing and helping to solve a wide range of environmental, economic, and social problems have made this program an invaluable undertaking.” — Peter Alexander, MS '04

Last Updated: 12/23/09