Alaska Voices

"As a leader you're not there to tell people what to do. You're there to support them succeeding at what they already can do best or helping them learn to do something better."

“I'm definitely interested in expanding access to nature because I do think it's really important for mental health and spirituality and physical health.”

“It's easy to be satisfied with incremental change when the incremental change is not affecting you.”

“As a mentor it's important for me to advocate for my students, especially as undergraduates you really feel like you're at the bottom and you have no power.”

“I think as humans, especially when it's in our backyard, we want to feel like we have a process, that we have ownership in that, and we have agency to make our voices heard.”

" I have to be able to be on my toes and defend all of the work that my team has done, and yet if I question any of the work any of the other teams have done, immediately I'm called in the office."

"I thought environmental science was a really good way to connect people's problems and Earth's problems and learn about the physical world yet the social science world, too."

“A lot of the male engineers were invited to go out golfing, and shooting, and I was never invited to do those things even though I was also an engineer and actually a pretty great shot.”

“The more positive side of people's brains would say oh, no, no, no, these are learning opportunities or whatever, but at some point it's actually just failure.”

"So once I found this role as a peacemaker, I was like, OK, this is my role on the team. It's not so much science, it's more communication."