Creating a Culture Shift in Campus Drinking

College drinking is often treated like an individual choice problem — “students just need to make better decisions.”

In this episode, we zoom out and look at the bigger lever: culture and environment. Host Dave Closson is joined by Kate Lower (SHIFT, University of Texas at Austin) and Keyra Palacios (UT Austin student & SHIFT Maker) for a practical conversation about what prevention looks like when you center student experience, take environmental strategies seriously, and bring a harm reduction mindset into real campus life.

You’ll hear:

• What SHIFT is (in plain language) — and why…