Rachael Lucille Hood

Name

Rachael Lucille Hood

Degree

Bachelor of Arts

Major

Environmental Studies, High Honors

About Me

I am an Environmental Studies major who spent many nights sorting through mounds of literal trash and treasure at the Free Store. My time at Oberlin has been defined by my membership in Students for Energy Justice, a group of incredible students who have inspired me to no end and guided my development of environmental justice praxis and organizing skills. I am grateful to be surrounded by SEJ members and other Oberlin faculty, staff, and students that have created a community of accountability and care, and taught me to do the same. In particular, I admire the UAW workers and student accomplices fighting for their positions in a neoliberalized world and institution.

Study Abroad

Zanzibar/Tanzania, Fall 2018

Campus Jobs

CDS student staff
Resource Conservation Team

Favorite Place

The J House Garden: my light, my love.

Favorite Class

American Agricultures with Professor Janet Fiskio at the Grafton Correctional Center. I feel incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to share that learning space with a humble, vulnerable, and kind community of Grafton and Oberlin students during my last semester. I think of my Grafton classmates every day, and encourage all those reading this to join in local campaigns for early release efforts and larger prison abolition in an era of COVID-19. Organizing is important now just as much, if not more, than ever.

Clubs & Organizations

Experimental College
Oberlin Student Cooperative Association
Students for Energy Justice

Notable Quote

"I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare" Simple Plan, song "Just A Kid"

Memorable Oberlin Moment

Big Swap

Graduation Date

05/25/2020

Future Plans

Masters of Geography program at West Virginia University with a graduate research assistantship to study the consequences of the Appalachian Storage Hub, a proposed petrochemical complex on the Ohio River Valley

Files

https://www.oc2020.oberlincollegelibrary.org/plugins/Dropbox/files/Hood_Rachael_Lucille.jpg

Citation

“Rachael Lucille Hood,” OC2020, accessed March 29, 2024, https://www.oc2020.oberlincollegelibrary.org/items/show/169.

Output Formats

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