I cannot relate to anyone these days who says they are “apolitical”. My time in academia, among other things, has helped me look at the world with a critical eye. My particular path, after completing a Masters Degree at the University of Miami in Tropical and Marine Ecosystem Management, was to return to academia after a few years away, joining Dr. Jonathan Hall’s Wilderness Geography lab at West Virginia University to study settler colonialism – particularly, the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism on Tribal buffalo restoration efforts. I wasn’t sure where the path would lead at that point, and have yet to finish the PhD I was working on, but it has changed my life in a million ways and I’m still figuring out where it’s taking me.
Tournaments and Turkey Legs: Adventure at Colorado Renaissance Festival, and also what gives me pangs
When my Dungeons and Dragon-ing brother Kory texted me a few weeks back that he wanted to take his girls to the Colorado Renaissance Festival, and asked if Sunny and Stelly and I wanted to join, I was secretly excited. (Ok, maybe it wasn’t a secret – I’ve never been great at hiding my dorky…
Science Communication: My first dabbling in 2013 at Science Online: Oceans!
This post is copied from one I wrote in 2013, two months into graduate school at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Completing my Masters there was an absolute dream. It was also some of my earliest exposure to the idea of science communication – that the science itself is…
Back to the Ack: My entrance letter to Grad School, the second time around
This letter was written by me, to Dr. Jonathan Hall, who accepted me into his graduate lab at WVU and changed my life for the better in a million different ways. I’ll share more about him and his work down the road, but for now, this is what was going on before I entered (and…
Exploring the Universe 