I am an Alaskan, ecologist, and science writer, currently working in the Alaska Legislature. Most recently, I served as Director of the Alaska Tech Hub, a consortium of entities from across the state working to grow an innovation economy around emerging energy technologies. Previously, through Treuer Words LLC, I consulted on complex federal grant applications, taught as an adjunct professor at Alaska Pacific University, conducted research and wrote for non-profit and academic clients, and chased stories from the Raja Ampat Islands of Indonesia to the Brooks Range of Alaska. 

In a previous life as an academic, I was a Gund Postdoctoral Fellow at UVM, a lecturer at Princeton University, and an AAAS Mass Media Fellow at PBS-NOVA in Boston. I completed a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton and an undergrad degree in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. 

The throughline of these experiences has been endeavoring to unearth and share ideas that will help people and biodiversity thrive into the future.