Zakiya Leggett

Area(s) of Expertise

Soil Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Sustainability

Publications

• A 4DEE Approach to Evaluating Ecological Literacy in Environmental Science Courses , Journal of College Science Teaching (2025)
• University Students' Ecological Footprint and Lifestyle Changes: Awareness vs. Action , EDUCATION SCIENCES (2025)
• A Positionality Tool to Support Ethical Research and Inclusion in the Participatory Sciences , CITIZEN SCIENCE-THEORY AND PRACTICE (2024)
• A pilot program to expand career opportunities in conservation for students of color , Natural Sciences Education (2024)
• Four-Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) for everyone: teaching ecology to non-majors , FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (2024)
• Where is Delftia ? Implementing citizen science into the biotechnology and environmental science curriculum , Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education (2024)
• Assessing the financial viability of growing industrial hemp with loblolly pine plantations in the southeastern United States , Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (2023)
• Gaps in diversity representation and data insufficiencies in the U.S. forest sector workforce analysis , TREES FORESTS AND PEOPLE (2023)
• The intersections of identity and persistence for retention in ecology and environmental biology with personal narratives from Black women , Journal of Geoscience Education (2023)
• Call for environmental justice amplification among ecology scholars and practitioners: A Black Ecology perspective , The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (2022)