Current Contributors
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Sabrina Ehmke Sergeant, Editor
An early love for Willa Cather novels prompted Sabrina Ehmke Sergeant to leave her hometown in Pittsburgh and head westward. She completed her doctorate in English literature at the University of Nebraska and has worked in academic publishing and as an editor in academic, legal, and freelance settings. A first-generation American of German and Belgian parents, she has a lifelong interest in exploring the role of place in shaping identity and the relationship between land and community.
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Taylor Brown, Research Assistant
Taylor Brown is a third-year law student at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Before law school, Taylor earned an MS in emergency management from Massachusetts Maritime Academy and a BS in public health from Brigham Young University. He also worked for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, balancing the emergency medical needs during disasters in rural towns and urban cities. Taylor grew up in a small town north of Dallas, TX, where there were more cows than there were people.
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Connor Oldenburg, Research Assistant
Connor Oldenburg is a second-year law student at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Before law school, Connor earned a BA in Political Science, Communication Media Rhetoric, and Social Sciences from the University of Minnesota, Morris. While in Morris, Connor worked as a research assistant studying rural ideologies, as well as being a captain for the football team. He grew up outside of the small town of Mapleton, MN, where he enjoyed fishing, hunting, and building mountain bike trails through the woods.
Project Alumni
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Karsen Sims
Karsen Sims is a 2023 graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Law, preparing to work in private practice in Omaha. Before law school, Karsen attended the University of Arkansas where she earned a BA in psychology. Karsen also worked for Legal Aid of Arkansas for several years. She grew up on a farm in a small town located in southwest Missouri. Her family has a long line of ranching, farming, and being community members in rural spaces. She grew up enjoying the outdoors through hiking, horseback riding, kayaking, and more.
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Aurora Kenworthy
Aurora Kenworthy is a 2022 graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Law. After graduation, Aurora began her career as an attorney working in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Office of Sponsored Programs. Prior to law school, Aurora earned a BA in history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Aurora was born and raised in Bellevue, Nebraska. She grew up listening to stories (ranging from her mother jumping off a roof of a chicken coop to her great-grandfather auctioning cattle) set on family farms outside of Greenwood, Nebraska and Villisca, Iowa and the small Midwest towns of Louisville, Thurston, Creston, Chillicothe, and Humboldt.