Articles and Interviews
UCC researchers to explore Indigenous rights at Mary Robinson Climate Conference
May 22, 2025
The landmark event will bring together global leaders, scientists, activists, and policymakers to address the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. UCC experts in Indigenous rights and climate justice among speakers presenting at the event.
Cedar Monroe joins the Study of Religions Department
February 19, 2025
Cedar Monroe is a PhD student and Assistant Lecturer in the Study of Religions Department at UCC. His research is focused on the intersections of ecological sustainability and activism, nature-based spiritualities, and settler colonial critique.
Where Can We Live? The Homeless Crisis in America
September 8, 2024
Syndicated to The Nation and dozens of other progressive outlets
In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties into Grays Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of the state of Washington.
To solve poverty in our country, let poor people take the lead
May 7, 2024
“They say we are trash people. White trash.” So begins the new book Trash: A Poor White Journey (Broadleaf), written by Cedar Monroe.
Interview with Cedar Monroe ’13 on their new book, Trash: A Poor White Journey
July 31, 2024
Episcopal Divinity School alum Cedar Monroe ’13 released their first book, Trash: A Poor White Journey in March 2024.
Rejecting the empty promises of white supremacy
2024
Trash is part memoir, drawing on Monroe’s experiences growing up poor and white in the Pacific Northwest, part prophetic admonition of capitalism and colonialism, and part call to arms for poor white people to break with the empty promises of white supremacy and join an emerging multiracial movement of the poor for transformative social change.