Student News: Katie Williams

Katie Williams – PhD student

Research interests: I study ecosystem approaches to environmental restoration in three “toxic hotspots” designatedas Great Lakes Areas of Concern: St. Louis River (Duluth, Minnesota/Superior, Wisconsin), St. Marys River (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan/Ontario, Canada), and Milwaukee Estuary. More specifically, I look at how stakeholders and the public participate in the processes of remediating and restoring these degraded areas, as well as the opportunities for creating community around natural resources.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.