The members of Expos 20: Ecological Crisis – all first-years at Harvard – chose to enroll in an Engaged Scholarship course. That means they volunteered for the extra workload of a course oriented toward the community, including a final capstone project on climate justice in Boston, to be presented to our partners in 350 Massachusetts.
Then came coronavirus. Students were scattered across four continents, placed under quarantine orders, and found themselves in new roles as caretakers, distance learners, and witnesses to history.
While our class continued to study the climate crisis, at home, students recorded their responses to what was unfolding around them. This website collects their testimony and reflections, in lieu of the capstone project that would have been.