Elizabeth Bittel
Elizabeth Bittel is a second year PhD student in Environmental Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder; her advisor and mentor is Kathleen Tierney. Elizabeth completed her BA at the University of North Florida in 2010 in Sociology, Social Welfare, and Secondary Education. She has worked as a research assistant for the Northeast Florida Center for Community Initiatives and the NCCD Center for Girls and Young Women in Jacksonville, Florida. Her main areas of academic interest are environmental justice as it pertains to disasters and hazards as well as agriculture and labor rights movements, the construction of knowledge and control of information, and social movements and activism. She is passionate about teaching, community organizing, and becoming a better and more well rounded researcher and student.
A Florida native, Elizabeth has finally adjusted to the altitude and is happy to be studying what she loves in one of the most beautiful settings in the country. She is infinitely grateful to the professors and mentors that have supported her academic and professional endeavors and is excited to share the benefits of an active sociological imagination with younger community members as she progresses through her degree and ventures into her professional life.
