An Interview with Molly Cashion

Molly Cashion is a sustainability leader working to transform communities and educational settings through collaborative and research-based practices. In her work as the Senior Program Manager for the Sustainability Teachers’ Academies at the College of Global Futures at Arizona State University, she has expanded the portfolio of programs and projects over the past seven years to reach over 3,000 educators across all 50 states that indirectly serve over one million students. Molly has a demonstrated history of working across sectors and has established more than 50 partnerships with school districts, nonprofit organizations, and local governments to support projects that seek to improve local sustainability. As a practitioner, she is experienced in education, facilitation, public speaking, project management and program design.

As an emerging social scientist, Molly works to advance action research at the intersection of justice and sustainability. Positioned as a critical theorist, she implements research designs in a way that aligns with a critical epistemology, centers participants’ voices, and ultimately seeks to change and transform practice. One example of this is her doctoral work examining the influence of critical professional development design on participants’ understanding of justice-oriented sustainability. Molly’s research combines her skills as a practitioner with educational research to advance the field of sustainability.