more. She has years of teaching experience at the community college and university level. She was awarded the Richard Dunn First Year Teaching Award from the University of Washington Seattle for her Writing on Environment themed English course for the Fall 2019-2020 academic year. Rasheena’s accolades include a Walker Communications Editorial Fellowship with the National Audubon Society and an Illinois Community College Journalism Association Award. She received her MA. Ed. in Urban Environmental Education from Antioch University Seattle, and B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a second year MFA student at the University of Washington, she is working on a speculative fiction novel and a creative nonfiction collection about land, Blackness, Indigeneity, environmental justice, and nature. Rasheena is also in residence with the Black Embodiments Studio at the University of Washington.