Alex Sivitskis

I am driven to study the Earth and share its stories. With an interdisciplinary academic background in Earth Sciences, Humanities, and Environment & Natural Resources, I have the capacity to both think objectively and analyze critically. I have participated in research projects focusing on topics from hydrology in the streams of Maine to geoarchaeology in the mountains of Oman and Ethiopia. I look to empower students through building authentic and inquiry-based investigations into place. I am always searching for an opportunity where I can use these skills on applied projects.

I thrive off encouraging others, and I always seek to promote an inclusive learning and working environment. I can work with intention to accomplish a given task, while maintaining an air of lightness for myself and those around me.

Current Position:

Education Research Faculty and Professional Learning Coach | Teton Science Schools

Curriculum Vitae | Google Scholar

What I'm Reading ~

There's a conversation in every room that only the people present can have and it's our responsibility to find that conversation.

― adrienne maree brown| Emergent Strategy Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don’t have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and receive the respectful acknowledgment of the rest of the earth’s beings.

― Robin Wall Kimmerer | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

In education, nothing is “neutral” when it comes to race. Educators need to realize that we are either being racist or antiracist educators. When I say “we,” I’m an educator too, as a professor. And then also, we are either teaching our children to be racist or antiracist, in our students.

― Ibrim X Kandi | Edsurge: How to Be an Antiracist Educator

Without a single scientific tool, Prince Siddartha sat on a patch of kusha grass beneath a ficus religiosa tree investigating human nature... We usually appreciate only half the cycle of impermanence. We can accept birth but not death, gain but not loss, or the end of exams but not the beginning. True liberation comes from appreciating the whole cycle and not grasping onto those things we find agreeable.

― Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche | What Makes You Not a Buddhist

What I'm Listening To ~

"We need to start considering American as an ethnicity, that is not solely associated with whiteness. That’s part of the problem and that’s part of the shade for this country is that it is constructed on a premise that says it is only for white people… Until we literally start considering this country differently in terms of whose it is and how it is, we will not see change."

― Amanda Seales | Small Doses Podcast

We emerged as part of a beautiful ancient song. Somewhere along the way between grain taxes and alphabets we began playing our own song, increasingly out of tune with the orchestra. This is muse ecology, where we hear some of the voices and grooves of people and place as we make our way back to harmony.

― Timothy Saxuer | Muse Ecology