About Me

Lovely To Meet You!

I am currently a student at Cal Poly Humboldt in the Interdisciplinary Studies program, and am graduating this Spring 2024! I will be finishing up school with an Interdisciplinary Studies degree with an emphasis in "Engaging Publics and Viewing Science through an Indigenous Lens". Basically, I studied how Western Science often "misses the point" and fails to take into account Indigenous perspectives, and explored some of the best ways to engage the people around me in those conversations; for example, through writing, art, or activism. My work is inspired and fueled by a deep sense of connection to nature and spirituality, something that living in the Redwood forest and Humboldt County has played a huge role in. Here are some of my current passions, so you can get a better idea of who I am and what is important to me:

• spirituality

• connection with nature

• poetry and creative writing

• art

• yoga & meditation

• veganism

• decolonization and Indigenous living practices (such as TEK)

• psychedelics & how they can be used to "cure" mental disorders

• embodying love, kindness, and connection!

Educational Journey

My educational journey has been a bit all over the place, but that is just due to so much profound growth and learning I have been doing as someone in their early 20's. 

I started my academic career at the University of New Mexico, where I was recruited to play division 1 volleyball and was a psychology major looking to go into forensic psychology. With a degree change in mind halfway through my first semester there, I transferred to Cal Poly Humboldt as a Zoology major, then quickly changed into a Wildlife major once I discovered that I wanted to be a wildlife biologist mainly doing fieldwork. Throughout my few semesters as a Wildlife major, I experienced immense growth in a lot of different aspects of my life, and amidst that growth, I took an intro NAS class with Professor Aaron Gregory. His class completely shifted my outlook on life, and from there on, I  became a changed person. Slowly, each class and semester after that NAS class started to make less and less sense, and the level of science I was pursuing wasn't quite aligning with my newfound morals. Questions like "Why should we be managing nature?" and "Should we be killing a living being just because it's in the wrong place?" festered in my mind as I sat through discussion after discussion about managing and conserving wildlife, slowly growing frustrated with everyone who just "wasn't getting it" or "couldn't see it". I started to feel out of place and ostracized within my major, and as those kinds of classes continued, my relationship with learning became riddled with depression and hopelessness for humanity. 

At the very bottom of that spiral, though, I heard about Cal Poly Humboldt's new IDP major. Shortly after, I met with my advisor Rebecca, and in a whirlwind I changed my major, my classes, and my relationship with learning. I had forgotten how much better it felt to be spending my time, energy, and money on an education that I was not only passionate about, but where I was also surrounded by classmates and professors who shared similar passions and ideals. And that takes us all the way to the present, where I am in my last semester and able to take classes like yoga and meditation, sustainable cooking, spiritual traditions in India, climate emotions as activism, and a capstone class where I am creating a miniature book of writing and art centered around Indigenous plants and animals. I will be graduating with a plethora of aspirations, assets, and passions to guide me toward a spiritually fulfilling career and lifestyle. 

Career Interests and Skills

I am still quite unsure what my career path is going to look like, but I plan on using the time after I graduate to explore some of the different options that interest me, and ultimately learn about what I want in my life and what will support that. Currently, my post-graduation plan involves learning regenerative, sustainable, and "down to Earth" farming practices, as well as working at a Vegan animal sanctuary. In my free time between those two things, I want to continue to develop my style within my writing and my art with the intent of publishing a piece of writing at some point in my life. I consider myself a very passionate person, and with that I also want to continue to be a voice for the injustices and atrocities happening in the world right now, including everything from factory farming, to decolonization, to the environmental crisis, to Cop City, to Palestine, and the list goes on and on and on and on (unfortunately). Mainly, I aspire to be a multi-faceted, passionate individual who inspires change, connection, love, and healing to the people around me.