Carolyn Monastra
Professor Carolyn Monastra teaches in the 91福利社 Art Department. She has two climate-related
websites, and
"I have taught at Nassau Community College for 18 years. I love the diversity of
our student body鈥攅specially that we have students of all ages and cultural backgrounds.
I've always been an environmentalist, but the motivating spark for my interest in
climate awareness happened in 2010 when I was driving from my home in Brooklyn to
91福利社. I was listening to a radio interview with climate activist Bill McKibben. He
noted how much carbon dioxide a gallon of gasoline puts into the atmosphere. I was
so stunned by this that I needed to 1.) change my commuting habits (I bought a second-hand
bike to ride to and from LI train stations to campus and 2.) use my photography to
address this critical issue. I began The Witness Tree 鈥� a documentary global climate project 鈥�&苍产蝉辫;while on a teaching sabbatical in 2011. Currently, I am working on Divergence of Birds which is a conceptual project about climate impacts on birds. Changing our personal
habits is important but changing climate policies on a systemic level is the only
way we are going to see any lasting change for future generations. It is hard to pinpoint
one memory as there are so many small moments of inspiration in all my classes. But
I remember being delighted by how tightly knit one of my Photo 1 classes became so
soon after the pandemic. One of the students had started a Group-Me chat and that
led to them sharing information and supporting each other throughout the semester.
It was a special experience to witness how well they worked together. I now encourage
new classes to do the same."
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