Axel Sandoval Bravo, interdisciplinary liberal arts student, and geography professor Carrie Chennault, head to southwest Denver to record the stories of longtime residents experiencing redevelopment and gentrification in their neighborhoods as part of an effort to engage in community building via CSU Extension.
This summer, political science major Aidan Lyde worked on the Community Networks in Fire-Environment Resilience (CoNIFER) Project to improve the understanding of wildfire risk mitigation planning based on wildfire protection plans in Colorado with CSU Extension.
Putting communication theory into practice, three PhD students engage in Extension internships that result in a Middle Eastern cookbook, updated curricula for a local 4-H program, and increase awareness of Extension and the Colorado State Fair.
Working with Grow and Give and the Family Leadership Training Institute respectively, Emilia Ravetta and Milagro Núñez-Solis, both Ph.D. candidates in sociology, connected food pantries with gardeners and youth with opportunities to strengthen their local communities in their CSU Extension summer internships.
MPPA graduate student Caesar Garduno worked with Larimer County agricultural outreach programming to learn about the policymaking processes for rural agriculture support.
MPPA student Jake Brick worked in southwestern Colorado on a Colorado Workforce Initiative to help underserved communities access education in their CSU Extension internships.
Joy Enyinnaya continues her research on misinformation by researching trends surrounding COVID information and vaccine hesitancy, providing education about herd immunity and documenting parents’ hesitancies about routine vaccinations in a summer CSU Extension internship in El Paso County.
Education at Colorado State University prioritizes not only preparing students for their future, but also providing an extraordinary foundation for giving back to the community through service-learning projects.
During the 2022-23 academic year, we are highlighting one Colorado State University student or alum from each of Colorado's 64 counties. The Centennial State's land grant university has a connection to the diverse lands and people from the counties of Moffat to Baca, Montezuma to Sedgwick and everywhere in between.
During the 2022-23 academic year, The All64 Project will highlight one student or alum from each Colorado county. The interactive map with colored pinned county locations shows which profiles are done. The first six counties and students are included in this initial launch.