Zach Goldberg passed his PhD preparations with flying colors while publishing three journal articles and a magazine piece. The title of his PhD research, currently underway, is “The rural land resources-justice nexus: utility-scale solar development on agricultural lands in the mid-Atlantic United States.” Zach has published a suite of new articles have appeared in Human Ecology, Agriculture and Human Values, and Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, as well as in the magazine Edge Effects that is published by the University of Wisconsin.