Speakers Sarah E. Clark, Eric Magrane & Ben Wilder are a part of the 6&6 (nextgensd6and6.com).

As Founding Director of Image & Sound Group, Sarah E. Clark manages creative arts initiatives that make the world a better place, including art-science initiatives, children's literature, video and animation projects in K-12 education, public health, environmental conservation and animal welfare. As a fluent Spanish speaker born and raised in Southern California, all of her work focuses deeply on promoting bi/multi-culturalism, bi/multi-lingualism, the questioning of "rules" and the dissolving of "borders". 

Eric Magrane, a geographer and a poet, is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at New Mexico State University, where he teaches human and cultural geography. Magrane is a co-editor of both The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide (University of Arizona Press, 2016), and Geopoetics in Practice (Routledge, 2020).  His scholarly and creative works have appeared in "Ecotone", "Literary Geographies", "Cultural Geographies", "GeoHumanities", "Antipode", the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.

Ben Wilder's research is broadly focused in desert ecology and biogeography. He utilizes multiple approaches and time scales to establish baselines to better understand modern biodiversity and connect science to conservation. He is the Director of the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, Director and co-founder of the Next Generation Sonoran Desert Researchers, and Interim Director of the Consortium for Arizona-Mexico Arid Environments (CAZMEX) at the University of Arizona.

Emily Underwood is an artist and educator based in Central California. Blending her background in both science and art, she explores the natural world and its landscape histories through the mediums of painting, printmaking, and bookmaking. She also creates illustrations and interpretive artwork for researching scientists, museums, parks, and other agencies and teaches Natural History Illustration at UC Santa Cruz.

Co-Hosted by Jeff Arazi (Veterans) and Diego Espinoza (EL CENTRO). 

Event Zoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/98556963707?pwd=KzZIYmZBQXR6ZkNHb3hkemJhd0JWUT09

This event is a part of MPC's STEAM 2.0. Go to libguides.mpc.edu/STEAM during the month of November to be a part of all of the online events and online exhibit.  ARC students who need an ASL interpreter, please contact Jacque Evans jevans@mpc.edu at least 24hrs in advance.