For her outreach project, Nina wrote an Op-ed titled A Tiny Insect’s Tremendous Legacy. This op-ed is about her experience with, and emotions surrounding, the effects of the invasive species known as the Hemlock Wooly adelgid, which attack, damage and kill Eastern Hemlock trees.
Within her op-ed, Nina aimed to capture tenants learned during the ‘How to Write an Op-ed’ Workshop, hosted by David George Haskell. Nina sought to strike a balance in her piece with appeals to credibility and authority, logic and data, emotions and shared humanity, and relevance to the present day. This op-ed has been picked up for the December 2022 issue of The Harvard Science Review.
Nina also spent the summer of 2022 interning with the World Wildlife Funds Forest Communications and was able to put the skills she learned during the YVoS program into action by writing three web stories published on the World Wildlife Fund’s site as a product of her internship.
Follow the links below to read two of the stories Nina wrote for the World Wildlife Foundation!
“Celebrating 20 Years of Protecting the Brazilian Amazon” by Nina Foster. 2022
“How one Indigenous community uses high-tech tools to defend its territory” by Nina Foster. 2022
