by Solange Fortenbach

Last Thursday, October 20th, actress and activist, Shailene Woodley and other pipeline protesters came to NYU for an impromptu panel. The event was announced with short notice, but recognizing Woodley’s name, I automatically RSVP’d. My expectations of this talk could be summed up into a semantic, if not generic, conversation about what I could do to be more like other environmental activists, like Shailene. This, however, was not how the panel went.  Read more