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Hiromi Katayama had been in the U.S. for less than a year, studying for an MFA in art at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, when she happened upon a cherry blossom tree near her studio. She’d been questioning the decision to leave her native Japan...

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Every so often, I encounter a capital-E environmentalist – someone with an environmental academic degree and a job at one of the big nonprofits from which I’ve somehow accumulated dozens of ballpoint pens – who asks me (when really they’re telling me...

Rural America is teeming with innovation, opportunity, and solutions to many flawed economic policies. And it always has been. Counter to the common narrative of the decline of all things rural, both history and experience tell a different story.
Because necessity is the mother of invention, rural America has always been and continues to be, the most experienced national proving ground for creative deployments of capital, revitalizations at scale, and far-reaching systems change....

This story was originally published by The Conversation.
Students in rural America still lack access to high-speed internet at home despite governmental efforts during the pandemic to fill the void. This lack of access negatively affects their academic achievement and overall well-being. The situation has...