Anouk Janess is an undergraduate student at the University of Washington completing two degrees in Marine Biology and American Indian Studies. She grew up on Lekwungen lands and waters, known today as southern Vancouver Island. Her professional goals, to enhance coastal community resilience, are informed by her training in Western and Indigenous science and Indigenous epistemologies that define “place” as networks of relations and responsibilities. To honor her responsibility to place, her work weaves marine conservation with environmental storytelling to research and communicate the impacts of climate change and colonialism on aquatic organisms, ecosystems, and communities.

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