about me
Hi! I'm Ayana, a 2019-2020 scholar with the UW Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program and rising senior at Bowdoin College. This summer, I'm interning with the UW Green Futures Lab and working on their Duwamish Floating Wetlands project. You can find all of my updates, creative work, and photos from the summer on this website!
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about the project
As a second year DDCSP scholar, one of my internship responsibilities is to create a personal project with end-of-summer deliverables, which grants me agency and allows me to pursue my own goals and interests within the framework of the internship.​
Projects can look like conducting an interview series with community members, designing an informational public resource, or producing a short film. In June, as I was outlining my goals for the summer, I was having a hard time thinking of ways I could combine all the different skills and roles I would be pursuing—fieldwork, lab work, writing blog posts, connecting with community members, producing social media content, and engaging deeply with self-education around Coast Salish histories—into a singular project.​
​​This site is my attempt to tell the story of this summer in a way that captures the complexity of my engagement with the Green Futures Lab. I'll be uploading photos, poems, field entries, reflective writing, and other creative content, thinking about everything from a broader framing that brings in my positionalities to this work: What does it mean to do science?