Raven Mitchell

Ms. Mitchell is a doctoral student in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Science at Michigan State University (MSU). She was a member of the 2018, history-making first cohort of the Advancing Geography Through Diversity Program (AGTDP) at MSU. Her focus is on periglacial (cold but unglaciated) geomorphology. Specifically, she is interested in the relationship between patterned ground, hillslope hydrology, and landscape evolution. Ms. Mitchell has extensive fieldwork experience in periglacial regions across Alaska and northwestern British Columbia, Canada. In 2020, she won the Innovation Award for Cryospheric Sciences, which is granted once a year to students within the Cryosphere Section showing great potential and innovative work within the field, and a University Rasmussen Fellowship recipient for doctoral studies. Ms. Mitchell serves on the board of the American Association of Geographer’s Polar Geography Specialty Group.