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Student Authors Speak Out: An Interview with Ariel Santiago

The Equality Now Project aims to amplify and uplift diverse voices. In the spirit of achieving this, we’ve conducted four student interviews with authors from this project.  

In this interview, we were given the chance to speak with Ariel Santiago, author of the piece “Bloom,” and she expressed herself with vulnerability and passion as she shared what’s next for her. 

Author Ariel Santiago poses for a picture.

Author Ariel Santiago

How has your work with the Literacy Services of Wisconsin benefitted you or helped you feel more comfortable with yourself?

Being in the literacy services program was like a new door opening for me. Wanting to finish school and having Kathrine was the biggest motivation for me. I really opened up, I was never good at public speaking. Being able to be vulnerable and say what’s on your mind [in the classroom environment] helped out a lot.

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‘What’s Past is Prologue’: An Interview with Greg Neuschafer

Author Greg Neuschafer published The Lower Fox River Clean Up: An Electronic Resource Library with The Teaching Press in October 2023. Email the Teaching Press to buy your copies! 

Interviewers’ notes: This interview was conducted via e-mail by Abby Jurk and Autumn Johnson, in stages, from 2022-2023. 

Why embark on this project?

Let me begin with some converging parameters.

In “The Tempest” William Shakespeare wrote “what is past is prologue”. In geology, my chosen field of university study, a basic tenant is, the Uniformitarian Principle which describes that the same natural processes that operate today in our environment have operated in the past.

Author Greg Neuschafer speaks at the book launch, October 2023

Winston Churchill in a 1948 speech to the House of Commons paraphrased American philosopher George Santayana, who said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. During four decades of oceanography research for the US Navy I learned the need to chronicle scientific processes and progress in order for new discoveries to stand future scrutiny.

For a number of years, I have supported UWGB’s Professor Kevin Fermanich’s Lower Fox River Watershed Water Monitoring Program. In a meeting with him after his annual student conference in 2018, he showed me a video clip of the operation of the high-tech filter-cake PCB cleanup process. We discussed the enormity of the Fox River Restoration in terms of scale, funding resources and time. I rhetorically asked if someone was summarizing all the effort going into this project? Dr Fermanich said he believed UWGB’s Professor Emeritus Bud Harris who had been a personal consultant to the technical cleanup operations was assembling a memoir. Continue reading

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