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{plain}Looking at cultural anthropology, the living culture, the way people interact, both locally and globally, it just hit right on the head, what I wanted to do.

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That was it, and it was partly also because of the professor I had.

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His name is Luis Vivanco, and he's a young professor.

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It's just one of those things: I got into the classroom and he was so engaging and stimulating and also really, really demanded a lot, and that's one thing I appreciate the most.

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{italic}Professor Vivanco
There's all these incredible subsidies we're pushing off on something or someone else...

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{plain}I got here to UVM and I quickly got involved in Students for Peace and Global Justice.

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We're doing a lot of stuff around fair trade and workers' rights, both on and off campus, as well as globally.

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Later this month we're bringing some Bangladeshi garment workers to talk about their experiences.

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{italic}Colin
Are you open to suggestions?

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Fellow Student
We are open to suggestions. Of course, this is a democracy.

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{plain}There's this new sub-field of anthropology and cultural anthropology that's emerging that's actually called "activist anthropology,"

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and so I'm starting to look at that and see if that is a way I might want to go.

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Activism for me, it's just something that really is just kind of part of who I am and how I want to shape the world

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and create a world that is beyond UVM, beyond Vermont, beyond the United States.

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And that's very idealistic, of course, but, you know, you have to start somewhere.

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