{"id":3375,"date":"2023-08-12T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:11:09","slug":"tara-russell-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/2023\/tara-russell-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Russell, Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Tara Russell, Student\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2023\/08\/Tara1400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2023\/08\/Tara1400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/90\/2023\/08\/Tara1400-320x380.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spending time in nature has always been Tara Russell\u2019s favourite way to connect with friends and family, think through complicated issues, and find joy and Type 1 fun. It&#8217;s this connection with nature that drew her to work to protect it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tara graduated with a BScH in Biology from Queen\u2019s University in 2013, before moving to Alberta. There, she found new challenges in environmental conservation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For nearly 10 years, she&#8217;s been the Program Director with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Northern Alberta Chapter, working to advance the protection of Alberta\u2019s public lands and waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tara has led grassroots campaigns to protect important headwaters regions, and to prevent the removal of provincial parks. Through all this work, she&#8217;s also faced the challenges that come with funding environmental work, public policy advocacy and small nonprofit operations. These challenges, and her desire to be more effective in her conservation work, drew her to the MPNL program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tara lives in Treaty 6, in Edmonton, Alberta, with her husband and her cat. When she isn&#8217;t working, she&#8217;s out biking, skiing, spending time with friends or digging around in her community garden plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spending time in nature has always been Tara Russell\u2019s favourite way to connect with friends and family, think through complicated issues, and find joy and Type 1 fun. It&#8217;s this connection with nature that drew her to work to protect it. Tara graduated with a BScH in Biology from Queen\u2019s University in 2013, before moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[887],"tags":[933],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students-2023","tag-tara-russell"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5467,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/5467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}