About

ESIIL Stars

“Building capacity with diverse students and faculty to teach and learn technical environmental data skills within diverse populations”

The ESIIL Stars Program, funded by NSF, is an annual program that builds environmental data science skills and trains the next generation of data-capable workers. Students from diverse backgrounds at schools serving communities that are historically underrepresented in STEM are invited to join this 5-month program. This is a website about the project by the 2023 Metropolitan State University of Denver student interns. For more information visit the ESIIL Stars webpage.

Interns

Scott Sheldon

Celeste Leedle

Rosie Patrick

Meghan Smedes

Advanced Interns

Michela Johnson

Naomi Jacquez

Kaiea Rohlehr

Faculty Advisors

Dr. Sylvia Brady

Dr. David Parr

People, Land and Labor Acknowledgment from MSU Denver

We honor and acknowledge

• The trees, shrubs, plants, plains, waters, and mountains that have sustained the people of the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Oglala, Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapahoe Nations.
• This area was also the site of trade, hunting, gathering, and healing for many other Native Nations
• The labor of enslaved Africans and their descendants who worked this stolen land for the colonists
• The communities and families of Auraria who were displaced by the creation of this campus for MSU Denver.