Carolyn Finney

Dr. Finney is the Artist-in-Residence and Environmental Studies Professor of Practice in the Franklin Environmental Center at Middlebury College. She is an author, cultural geographer, and climate justice activist. Dr. Finney was a Fulbright fellow and Canon National Science Scholar. She has taught at Wellesley, the University of California Berkeley, and the University of Kentucky. Dr. Finney has served on the U.S. National Parks and worked for various media outlets. She is a columnist at the Earth Island Journal. In 2021 she received the Alexander and Ilse Melamid Medal from the American Geographical Society. Her recent works include Self-Evident: Reflections on the Invisibility of Black Bodies in Environmental Histories (BESIDE Magazine, Montreal Spring 2020),” The Perils of Being Black in Public: We are all Christian Cooper and George Floyd (The Guardian, June 3rd, 2020) and “Who Gets Left Out of the Great Outdoors Story?” (The NY Times November 4, 2021).