Northland College has revised its academic programs as of Fall 2024. Some pages may refer to previous programs while updates are made to reflect our refocused offerings.
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Meet Our Alumni
Empowering Women in Developing Countries
Shout Louder, Try Harder, Never Give Up
Kayte Meola ‘90 is a sociologist, researcher, and educator focused on gender, agriculture, and natural resource management in international development. At Northland, she studied outdoor education with a focus on… Read More →
Wood Crusades for Climate Policy
Jenn Wood '00 Focuses on Energy Conservation
As an environmental and social justice solutions strategist in Vermont, Jenn Wood ’00 is focused on energy conservation and supporting low-income communities that will be hardest hit by the impacts… Read More →
Food Is Everything
Danny Simpson '18, Assistant Manager of the Hulings Rice Food Center
Danny Simpson ’18 worked on his aunt’s organic farm for six years before coming to Northland College, where he has played a major role in the food scene on campus—from… Read More →
Climbing roofs? No problem.
Audra (Jung) Willing '05 uses outdoor ed skills for solar design
After college, Audra (Jung) Willing ‘ 05 moved to Seattle to work for the National Outdoor Leadership School as a wilderness field instructor and later as a program supervisor for… Read More →
The Language of Local Foods
Meagan (Wilson) Van Beest ’97 manager at CFC
Meagan (Wilson) Van Beest ’97 grew up in the apple capital of New York state, near orchards and dairy farms. As a child and a teen, she bagged food alongside… Read More →
Rain Gardens Provide Stormwater Storage
This past summer Nile Merton ’15 returned to campus to finish a project he started as a student, updating the rain garden at the Larson-Juhl Center for Science and the… Read More →
Wild Foods
Sustainable Solution to Big Ag
Abe Lloyd’s ’02 interest in wild foods dates back to childhood campouts in a vacant lot next to his house in Washington state and his childhood fantasy of never needing… Read More →
Fighting for Climate Justice
Gabriela Boscio Santos '09
East Boston is situated on the front line of climate change. Made up of five islands joined by landfill, East Boston is a peninsula that connects to Boston proper by… Read More →
From Grape to Glass
Making Wine Country More Sustainable
Aaron Schreiber-Stainthorp ’05 has helped twenty-plus wineries implement water conservation and zero waste programs, improve winery energy efficiency, and he led the Francis Ford Coppola Winery in winning the 2017 California… Read More →
O’Gara ’18 Named Timber Wolf Alliance Coordinator
Wolf Awareness Week Events October 23, 25, 26
Jordyn O’Gara’s passion for wolves started as a kid when she used to draw floor plans for the animal sanctuary so she could save all wildlife. Then, when she was… Read More →