Talk Story – EVS Tech Kim Strand

Editor’s note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore’s online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG.

This is a project that was started as part of the Waste Project under the President’s Sustainability Research Fellowship ’16-17. During the time Adina Spertus-Melhus’17 and Vanessa Meng ’19 worked with EVS techs and realized that there were many gaps in communication between EVS and the larger student body. Talk Story was created to try and help foster communication and also send out some announcements to the larger community.

Vanessa Meng

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