Office: Mish ee twie Room 1325N
Email: jqazi@wvc.edu 

Education

B.A., International Studies, University of Washington
M.A., Geography, University of Hawaii
Ph.D., Geography, University of Washington

Courses developed and taught at WVC

Introduction to Geography (GEOG 100)
World Regional Geography (GEOG 102)
Introduction to Sustainability (GEOG 150)
Economic Geography (GEOG 207)
Previously: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (AG 289) and Society and Natural Resources (NATR 235)                                                                                                                                

Courses taught at CWU and UW

Ecology & Culture (GEOG 440), World Hunger (GEOG 371)

Committees

• Sustainability Committee and Responsiveness to Local Needs Council                
• WA and OR Higher Education Sustainability Coordinators network                                            
• SBCTC Climate Across the Curriculum steering committee
• Our Valley Our Future Post Carbon Economy steering committee
• Chelan County Climate Resiliency Strategy roundtable, education & outreach committee
• Community and Climate Impact Hub (collaboration between CAFE and UW)

Developed the following:

• WVC Sustainability policy and procedures
• Tree Campus Higher Education certification for WVC
• Plastic Reduction Challenge through National Wildlife Federation certification
• Campus Race to Zero Waste
• Waste Diversion programs including recycling, glass crushing, and food waste composting
• Idle Free Zones for parking lots with Sustainable NCW and Confluence Health
• FACE Climate Solutions & Justice faculty professional development training
• Climate Solutions & Justice Speakers Series (open to the public)
• Sustainability Guided Pathway including employer needs assessment survey
  
  

Awards

• Outstanding Part-time Faculty Award recipient at WVC (2021)
• Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award recipient at UW (1993).

Publications

• 2005: “The Politics of Building Alternative Agro-food Networks in the Belly of Agro-Industry” first author with Theresa Selfa in Food, Culture and Society (Vol. 8, #1: 45-72, Spring)
• 2005: “Place, Taste, or Face to Face?  Understanding Producer-Consumer Networks in ‘Local’ Food Systems in Washington State” second author with Theresa Selfa in Agriculture and Human Values (Vol.22, #4: 451-464, December).
• 2003: “Latino views of agriculture, careers, and education:  Dispelling the myths” last author with Kent Mullinix, Leo Garcia, Alexandra Lewis-Lorentz in NACTA Journal (pg 1-11).
• 2000: “The Geography of Washington’s World Apple:  Global Expressions in a Local Landscape” second author with Lucy Jarosz in the Journal of Rural Studies, an internationally refereed journal of agricultural social science, Vol. 16: 1-11.
• 2000:  “Benefits of Farm Labor Exit Surveys” in Good Fruit Grower, trade journal, Vol. 51, No. 15: 25 (October).  Survey research, analysis and documentation.
  
  

Presentations

Multiple presentations at AAGs (annual geography conferences), WAHESC (annual sustainability conference), NACTA (annual ag teachers conference). Several climate presentations at WVC, Pybus University, CDHD, Master Gardeners, and other locations.

Community volunteer work includes:

• Sustainable NCW board member
• Climate Reality Leader tasked with public presentations on climate change
• WA Farmers Market Association board member
• Waste Loop and Rotary Towards Zero Waste
• EAT (Education and Agriculture Together) food systems non-profit
• Climate Conversations NCW
• Newbery Elementary and FMS school garden developer

 

Bio

Dr. Qazi is a Wenatchee Valley College Geography faculty member and the sustainability coordinator. She joined WVC in 1996. 

She presented "Climate Change and Climate Justice in NCW" in the 2017-18 WVC Speaks Lecture Series, and coordinated the "Climate Change and Agriculture in Eastern Washington" presentation in March of 2024. She has led walking tours of the campus and headed several sustainability events on the Wenatchee campus.