Rachael Lucille Hood
Name
Rachael Lucille Hood
Degree
Bachelor of Arts
Major
Environmental Studies, High Honors
Hometown
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
Citation
“Rachael Lucille Hood,” OC2020, accessed March 29, 2024, https://www.oc2020.oberlincollegelibrary.org/items/show/169.