Meet Elizabeth Schierbeek, Graduate Teaching Assistant

Meet Elizabeth Schierbeek, Graduate Teaching Assistant

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Elizabeth Schierbeek is a Ph.D. student in George Mason University’s Environmental Science and Public Policy program. She holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies with an individualized concentration in Global Environmental Justice and a B.A. in Integrative Studies with a concentration in Social Justice and Human Rights, both from George Mason University. Her master’s thesis investigated Indigenous perspectives on social-ecological system resilience. Her current dissertation research is a continuation of that work and is focused on biocultural conservation, Indigenous rights, and community activism with the Maijuna Indigenous group of the Peruvian Amazon. She currently serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in George Mason University’s Department of Environmental Science teaching EVPP 480 Sustainability in Action and supporting EVPP 108/112 Ecosphere - Introduction to Environmental Science I/II. 

Elizabeth also assisted Drs. McCarron and Chen with behind the scenes support for the fall and spring events they planned and facilitated for Institute for a Sustainable Earth’s Human Rights and Global Justice Initiative. 

The Environmental Science and Policy faculty within the College of Science have selected Elizabeth to receive the Exceptional Environmental Science and Policy Graduate Student Teacher Award at the 2021 Virtual Departmental Awards Ceremony.