Stewards:
Powering Public Good

A magazine on sustainability,
climate change, research, and impact.

Stewards magazine is published each fall for alumni and friends of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) and the Program in the Environment (PitE). With a print readership of 12,000, plus a digital subscribership of 20,000, the strategic goal is to highlight the impactful sustainability research and work of our faculty, students, and alumni, while lessening our environmental footprint, which is why we publish only one issue per year.

Each issue of Stewards magazine focuses on the school’s research related to sustainability and climate change. The Fall 2025 issue highlights how the school’s research is “Powering Public Good” given that science-related budget cuts were being made by the federal government. Through design, photography, and storytelling, it shows how society benefits from SEAS’ research and how it makes a tangible difference in communities. Each story focused on identifying a sustainability problem, how it affects readers and why should they care, and what the solution is.

My roles in this project were extensive. From redesigning the bones of the magazine, designing each spread, going into the field to photograph researchers, designing launch emails, designing social media graphics, and digitizing it for the web.