Incorporating Climate Justice in STEM Curriculum Workshop
Description: This workshop is designed for instructors who are interested in incorporating climate justice and civic engagement into their STEM curriculum. Participants will first learn from experienced faculty then work in small instructor groups to integrate climate justice and civic engagement into their syllabi. The workshop will be led by Sonya Doucette, Heather Price, Taryn Oakley, and Carol Higginbotham, STEM faculty at four community colleges in Washington and Oregon.
This workshop is hosted through Curriculum for the Bioregion, an initiative that supports instructors in preparing learners to participate in complex issues of sustainability. Curriculum for the Bioregion is managed by Western Washington University.
Date: Feb 10, 12-2pm Location: Online (Zoom)

Sonya Remington Doucette
Senior Associate Professor, Bellevue College
Dr. Sonya Doucette is a sustainability leader at Bellevue College (BC), where she is Chair of the Sustainability Curriculum Committee, the Sustainability Concentration Coordinator, and manager of the Climate Justice in the Curriculum Project. She is currently PI of a 3-year NSF IUSE grant that funds the C-JUSTICE project. She authored an introductory sustainability textbook Sustainable World: Approaches to Analyzing and Resolving Wicked Problems (2017, 2nd edition). Prior to BC, she was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University (2010 – 2013). In addition to completing a textbook, she conducted sustainability education research at ASU (Connell, Remington-Doucette, & Armstrong 2012, JSE; Remington-Doucette et al 2013, IJSHE; Remington-Doucette & Musgrove 2015, IJSHE). One manuscript was highly commended as Outstanding Papers in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education’s Annual Awards for Excellence. From 2008 – 2010, she was a post-doctoral teaching fellow in the Program on the Environment* at the University of Washington. (*now College of the Environment.) She began her academic sustainability career in 2007 when she became active in the Curriculum for the Bioregion (C4B) initiative at Evergreen State College (now at Western Washington University). C4B seeks to infuse sustainability into all curricula, in all disciplines, at institutions of higher education in Washington State. She remains active and was a member of the regional steering committee for this successful, ongoing initiative.

Heather Price
Chemistry Professor, Climate Justice Educator/Researcher, North Seattle College
Heather earned her PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry studying the long-range transport and photochemistry of air pollution. Heather's postdoctoral atmospheric chemistry research was conducted with the Program on Climate Change at University of Washington, incorporating the isotopes of hydrogen into a global chemical transport model of the atmosphere. She is currently co-PI of a 3-year NSF IUSE grant that funds the C-JUSTICE project and a chemistry professor at North Seattle College. Heather has developed a number of courses on climate change and climate justice: for undergraduate students at UW, a summer program for high school students, and continuing science education courses for elementary and 6-12 grade teachers. Her current research and teaching focus is on faculty curriculum development workshops to help faculty incorporate climate justice with civic engagement into their existing STEM, arts, and humanities curriculum, and into her own chemistry curriculum. Dr. Price is also on the leadership team of the Seattle 500 Women Scientists organization and is co-founder of the climate resources community hub, TalkClimate.org.

Taryn Oakley
Environmental Science Faculty, Portland Community College
Taryn has been teaching environmental science at Portland Community College since 2008. She has a passion for addressing environmental concerns through an equity lens and is an advocate for place-based learning. Her current projects include The Portland Community College Ready Bag and Community Resilience Project, increasing the accessibility of field-based science courses, and helping faculty incorporate climate justice into their curriculum. Taryn volunteers as a climate activist and spends her free time hiking , camping, and traversing the great outdoors.

Carol Higginbotham
Chemistry Professor, Central Oregon Community College
Carol Higginbotham has been teaching Chemistry at Central Oregon Community College since 1999. Her interests in sustainability have been a through-line in her teaching, impacting both her classes and outside professional activities. This has included work with Green Chemistry in Education as well as work on environmental chemistry research projects.