Lena Ashooh

  • The pandemic has a way of stretching, warping, and shrinking time into a difficult to read, but strangely telling, ordered memory. Since I was nine years old, I have been showing Brown Swiss dairy cows with the […]

  • Lena Ashooh wrote a new post 6 years ago

    I’m hoping to continue my research on Vermonter’s valuation of coyotes, land, and livestock. Here is how I approached my research, some of my most interesting findings, the main conflict in this research, and the […]

  • Lena Ashooh changed their profile picture 6 years, 1 month ago

  • It was nice to sign on in the evening after we had lived such entirely different days. Almost like the spokes on a wagon wheel: each spoke having an entirely different experience as the wheel turns, coming […]

  • Lena Ashooh commented on the post, 8 years ago

    Hi Lucy,

    I enjoyed reading your mind map! Echoing Fallon’s thoughts, I would also love to see you dig deeper into a topic. I actually was just thinking of your project when I heard about Stowe Middle School in […]

  • Hi Lucy,

    I loved reading your interview questions, and the audience that you were discussing them with! I think that it was a great idea to speak to other students your age. I’m wondering what the demographic […]

  • Hi Lucy,

    My name is Lena, I’ll also be one of your blog readers this year. I was a WtS student for the past two years, and researched Vermont’s veal and dairy industries.

    It’s great to hear that you are so […]

  • About 5 years ago I began to spend my summers showing dairy cows at a Vermont farm. About twice a summer, I travel with my friends to Vermont  fairs to show our Brown Swiss dairy calves. This experience is an […]

  • It’s insane to think that just last week I was in the Burlington airport, waiting to fly out to the Navajo Nation to participate in a writing workshop. It wasn’t until two days later, when I was on the plane […]

  • One of the most pressing issues impacting our country today, is divisibility, especially as a result of the conversation of what’s “right” vs “wrong”, and the self-righteousness that is associated with it.  […]

  • Lena Ashooh wrote a new post 9 years ago

    In reflecting on my progress in defining a social issue, and collaborating to formulate a social action team, this scale provides a lot of insight on the great progress my team and I have made during this weekend. […]

  • Hi James,

    Great work! I loved reading about how you really intellectualized Simon Sinek’s Ted talk and stepped back to explore what effective leadership in general entails, along with how you can apply it to […]

  • Hi Lindsay,

    Wow, great work! You’ve done a really great job of breaking down, and providing insight, on the complex layers that you have discovered surrounding your subject, and it has been really cool seeing […]

  • Lena Ashooh commented on the post, #5 got compassion? 9 years ago

    Hi Fallon,

    These are really great questions, and I think that you have really highlighted some of animal rights advocates biggest struggles. It is really easy to ignore some of the cruelty that happens on […]

  • Lena Ashooh commented on the post, #4 The Breakdown 9 years ago

    Hi Tom,

    Thanks so much for all your feedback! It has been really interesting working with you these past few weeks. I live in Shelburne and am a freshman at CVU.

    I saw your name on a list for a “Steering […]

  • Lena Ashooh wrote a new post 9 years ago

    In viewing one of milk’s most notorious campaign slogans, got milk? one might question why the dairy industry isn’t represented by got compassion? or got quality?, but instead an invoking question of have our […]

  • Lena Ashooh commented on the post, #4 The Breakdown 9 years ago

    Hi Fallon,

    Thanks so much for your comment, these questions were really interesting to consider.

    I’m definitely going to look more into the economics involved in increasing the price of milk, and I think […]

  • Hi Tom,

    Thanks for your comment! These next few weeks I am planning on really digging into the dairy industry’s history and impact on school lunches. I definitely think that you are correct in saying that […]

  • Hi Lindsay!

    I loved reading this blog post! I think that it is super interesting how you might consider the strike as a student. I have never thought about this event in that sense. I really like see how you […]

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