June 2022 – I graduated! I’ll be staying at Evergreen as temporary staff in library circulation for the summer, and will be beginning a CivicSpark Fellowship with the City of Olympia Climate Program in September.
April 2022 – I had the pleasure of reading a short presentation on the power of liberatory agricultural and food education in my own life at the “Tending Seeds Tends People” workshop at the Evergreen Equity Symposium, organized by my friend and collaborator Sarah Dyer.
March 2022 – The beginning of my final quarter at Evergreen! I’ll be working as a community outreach intern with Thurston Conservation District, a non-regulatory agency that promotes conservation and environmental stewardship on agricultural lands. I’m also doing undergraduate research in Dr. Carri LeRoy’s Freshwater Ecology Lab, where I’ll be identifying aquatic macroinvertebrates collected in the Elwha River and advancing my studies in R programming and ecological statistics.
March 2022 – I’ve accepted an offer for a paid internship with the City of Olympia Climate Program, through Evergreen’s Center for Climate Action and Sustainability, where I will work with Dr. Pamela Braff to conduct an existing building stock inventory for future cost and energy analysis.
March 2022 – My group successfully completed and presented our research paper – Measuring the Effects of Salmon Presence on Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Communities in Streams in Thurston County, WA – and are both relieved to be done and proud of what we accomplished in only 10 weeks. My Bachelor’s of Science capstone project and upper-division credits are successfully passed!