Faculty Forum with Emily Satterwhite

In this episode, Emily Satterwhite discusses her role as a scholar, climate justice activist, and pipeline fighter. She explores the institutional response to a recent direct action she participated in to block the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Emily Satterwhite is an associate professor and the director of Appalachian Studies in the Department of Religion and Culture. Her book Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 (2011) won the Weatherford Award for best nonfiction about Appalachia and the Phi Beta Kappa Sturm Award honoring excellent work that is recognized as significant by a wider audience.

Interviewers: Lara Nagle, Master's student in Urban and Regional Planning at Virginia Tech, and Neda Moayerian, PhD candidate in Virginia Tech's Planning, Governance & Globalization program