I believe that for students to become Changemakers, they must not only understand the challenges facing the world, but they must also start seeing themselves as agents of change right from the moment they step onto campus. To help them on this journey, I have tried to use changemaking as framework in all of my classes to awaken students’ “sociological imaginations” in order to increase their awareness about social justice issues that impact their communities (campus, local, national and global) and to instill in them a sense of personal responsibility to actively engage with the world around them to make it a better place. Particularly in my Sustainability and Environmental Justice classes, I strive to incorporate meaningful, community-engaged, social justice projects that help students transform the ideas they discover in the classroom into concrete and powerful models of change.

