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Wren poses in a graduate cap with long blue hair and a gold gown.

Wren King

Anthropology, Women’s & Gender Studies, and Geography
2023

“The Sustainable Development Internship is a fantastic opportunity to directly give back to the community that has given so much to me while also putting my education into action.”

I am a recent graduate from West Virginia University, specializing in Anthropology, Women's and Gender Studies, Geography, and Native American Studies. My enthusiasm lies in promoting undergraduate research, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and empowering underrepresented students in academia. 


Sustainable Development Internship

Wren participated in the  The Sustainable Development Internship which is designed for undergraduate students who wish to cultivate their leadership and community-based research capacities to contribute to transformative social change in Appalachia. The Sustainable Development Internship provides undergraduate students a space to build confidence and capacity in their search for creative solutions to local and global problems.

How did you choose your Geography major?

"I was brought into geography by Dr. Cynthia Gorman through her Women in International Development class. It was taught during the spring 2020 semester, so it was a wild time in the world in general, but despite that, Dr. Gorman was able to captivate me with an entirely new world of study which I was completely unaware of. That semester really expanded my horizons in terms of my future, and inspired me to truly think about what I wanted to do with my future, and geography had exactly the space for me to explore more of the possibilities. I have been able to take classes in a massive range of social studies fields and concentrations that have wildly diversified the ways in which I view the world, the methods in which to interact with it, and how I see myself going forward with my career."



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