Faculty Notes | Eirik Steinhoff | 2022-2023
Eirik Steinhoff served once again as faculty co-pilot for New Student Orientation in Fall of 2022, working with Amy Cook and an amazing constellation of faculty, staff, and current students to welcome a bumper crop of new students to Evergreen’s Olympia campus.
For the 2022-23 school year he has been part of the Evergreen Prison Education Project’s core team working to develop and expand Evergreen’s offerings behind and beyond bars at the request of the WA State Legislature in anticipation of the restoration of Pell Grants for incarcerated students. As part of this work, he has been facilitating a writing workshop and a study skills course in collaboration with Centralia College at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton. He will give a presentation on Evergreen’s prison education work in July at the Critical Edge Alliance annual conference at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. This summer he will also participate in the Bard Prison Initiative’s two-week summer residency.
In December of 2022, he hosted the Center for Responsible Forestry‘s “Legacy Forest Summit” in downtown Olympia, which brought together a range of forestry experts and local elected officials to advocate for alternatives to the ongoing clearcut logging of older forests on public land in WA. In April of 2023 he gave two Earth Day presentations on legacy forests: at Pacific Lutheran University’s Steen Family Symposium on Environmental Issues and at the Rachel Carson Forum at The Evergreen State College.
