Hometown: Columbus, OH
Major: Environmental Policy and Decision Making
Favorite SUSTAINS LC Event: volunteering with Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed (FLOW)
I’m Gemma Bush and I’m and Environmental Policy and Decision Making major. I originally was interested in a learning community because…I liked the idea of having a way to make connections and find common ground with people. I picked SUSTAINS because I was really passionate about the environment, and I thought it sounded like fun! I also thought it would be cool and helpful to be around people who were taking some of the same classes I was and who cared about the environment the way I did.
My favorite event with SUSTAINS was when we volunteered to help FLOW (Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed) do a river clean-up. We went and picked up trash along the river bank. We got into some hard to reach places, getting plastic stuck high in trees and climbing over rocks and through mud to get further along the trail. I felt like an environmental super hero by the time we were done!