CARSON SCHOLARS PROGRAM FACULTY MENTORS
Throughout the scholarship year, Carson Scholars work closely with several UArizona Faculty Mentors who provide hands-on training and other resources to develop skills, strategies, and products to effectively convey the value of their research and enhance their skills in communicating science to a variety of audiences.

Kevin Bonine
Director, Education Initiatives, Arizona Institute for ResilienceProfessor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Rachel Gallery
Joint Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and the Environment and Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyCARSON PEER MENTORS
In addition to working with faculty mentors, Carson Scholars also receive peer mentorship from former Carson Scholars who are still in graduate school. Carson Peer Mentors are selected from the previous year's cohort and provide support to our Carson Scholars, Faculty Mentors, and Program Coordinator.

Alexis Hagestad

Anu Sethuraman
CARSON SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDER

Diana Liverman, Ph.D.
Regents’ Professor, School of Geography, Development and Environment
Diana Liverman is the founder of the Carson Scholars program. Her research focuses on the human dimensions of global environmental change, particularly climate impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, and climate governance. She also works on the political ecology of environmental management in the Americas. Her current projects include work on climate justice including the role of women in climate science, climate and poverty in Tucson, and earth system boundaries. She has been an IPCC lead author, an Earth Commissioner, advisor to the mayor of Tucson on climate justice, and is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Listen to Dr. Liverman's long podcast interview with UA student news about her career here.
High Country News journalist Maya Kapoor interviews Diana Liverman on climate justice here.