Agency in Action: CalArtians’ Conservation in Joshua Tree
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When Anthony McCann, director of CalArts MFA in Creative Writing, approached School of Critical Studies Associate Dean Mike Bryant with the idea of participating in a desert-focused climate change initiative, it sounded like a no-brainer. A biologist and statistician by training, one of the general studies courses that Bryant teaches at CalArts is Biodiversity and…