About Us
Maeve Callahan
Producer
Maeve Callahan '25 is studying Digital Media & Communications along with Environmental Studies. When not pursuing academic projects such as this one, she can be found leading backpacking, mountainbiking, and backcountry ski trips as an adventure sports instructor with the college, and derives her passion for environmental issues through these meaningful experiences spent educating in the outdoors. She hopes she can pass along this passion for environmental issues along with the skills she teaches.
Jack Polatchek (Amherst, NH)
Producer
Jack Polatchek '25 is studying Digital Media and Communications as well as Digital Marketing. As an avid skier, hiker, fly fisherman, and golfer he spends much time outdoors in nature. Ackowledging the impacts humans have had on the environment he hopes through media like this he can educate people on how to find the balance between comfort and conservation. Outdoor recreation is key to human flourishment and while lawns are a key component to that he wants to work on spreading alternative ways of land management which would also be beneficial to the countless other lifeforms that inhabit a space.
Our Ethos
When tasked with prospect of directing, producing, filming, and editing a documentary about the world's issues at large, Shaped and influenced as students of the 21st century where stories of natural disaster and massive climate threats run rampant in the media, the two students discovered a majorly under-examined and unlikely issue that they couldn't ignore: modern American lawn culture. With implications of threat to human, ecological, and even sociological health at stake, this is a project that the two hope will shed light on a problem and its solutions that could spell major positive impacts if heeded.
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