Casey Greenleaf
Cultural Anthropology, BA
Graduated in 2020
Casey Greenleaf transferred to Northeastern during her second year. She believed Northeastern would provide her the freedom to mix and match courses and create an unique educational experience. Casey declared a cultural anthropology major because she found that it addressed the core desire at the root of all her interests—understanding the human condition.
Casey took Global Markets and Local Cultures. After traveling, she better saw how the coursework mirrored real life, and knew her education was preparing her for the world.
She went on a DOC to Argentina and Uruguay, and become highly proficient while living in Buenos Aires and visiting the glaciers of the Patagonia region.
Casey completed her first co-op at the Museum of Fine Arts as a community arts program assistant. She gained valuable hands-on experience assisting in arts classes for local communities.
She joined the Sociology & Anthropology Student Association during her third year. It allowed her to get to know her fellow students and mirrored the small school experience she loved.
Casey studied abroad in Nepal for her capstone thesis. She lived alone for a month while she researched and wrote about the lived experience of climate change in the lower Himalayas.
She worked for the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, founded by Professor Sarah Wylie. She produced promotional videos, developed a virtual research event, wrote event programming, and more.
“It was the intermodality of Northeastern that was really attractive to me. When I came here, that idea was a very exciting thing for me: the potential that I could do so much, that there were so many opportunities open for me like co-ops and studying abroad. That idea ended up being very true—as true as I thought it would be, it was even truer.”
Casey now works as Community Coordinator for Creative Mornings, an organization hosting monthly event series for creative communities.
