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**Biographical Sketch, 2020**

 * Keyword: Environmentalist**

Elizabeth Anderson is a twenty-eight-year-old anthropology graduate student nearly done with her PhD. She has studied how other cultures react and deal with significant environmental changes, both in the past and present, focusing on housing, cities, and other building infrastructure. Her dissertation, once published, will hopefully help the world move past dependence on fossil fuels.

Anderson got her BS and MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Fall 2014. She was President of one of RPI's environmental clubs for two years and led a group of students to create the Sustainability at Rensselaer Report 2014. Anderson was also involved in student publications, where she served on various editor positions for three years. After graduation, Anderson went abroad for a couple months before working on research that included STS, GIS, and a little website management--her main interests outside of environmentalism and anthropology. She started graduate school in fall 2015. While her club involvement is not as high as it was while she was obtaining her undergraduate degree, Anderson is still involved in sports, environmental, and publications clubs. She believes that these are healthy for her to keep a sound mind and to advance her college community with her knowledge.

Besides her main research, Anderson has been involved with her local community. She has done a little bit of research on how having a sense of community and belonging helps people to be environmentalists, research she started her freshman year. After she is awarded her PhD, Anderson hopes to work on this research a bit more. Her long term goal is to be a professor in either STS or Anthropology--or an overlap of the two.