Harper Johnston

Student Fellow

Title

Undergraduate

Department/School

Geography

Faculty

Arts

University

UBC

Harper Johnston is a 4th-year Environment & Sustainability Student and settler on Musqueam territory. She believes that we protect what we feel connected to, and is led by a passion for community empowerment work, food systems and environmental justice.

Primary Recipient Awards

Harper Johnston – Catalyst Fellows – 2022

The Wall Catalyst Student Fellow cohort will first come together to engage in the online, interdisciplinary Facing Human Wrongs course and subsequently work together on a number of public-facing projects.

The course content touches upon systemic, historical and ongoing violence, unsustainability, our complicities in social and ecological harm, and our tendency to address complex problems, such as biodiversity loss, food insecurity, economic and political crises, and the potential for social and environmental collapse, with simplistic solutions. The course requires students to be willing to be uncomfortable and to have their perspective challenged.