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​Selected press & media highlights
Media Features
Flaming Hydra
Indigenous Relations
A reflection on Indigenous relationality and how colonial systems disrupt land-based knowledge and Indigenous frameworks of care and resistance.
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Migration Policy Institute
Climate Displacement from Indigenous Lands
Examines how climate displacement disproportionately impacts Indigenous communities and their ongoing resilience strategies.
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Yale Climate Connections
Climate Reading Feature
Highlights climate-focused literature exploring justice, ecology, and storytelling as tools for understanding environmental change.
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Nature
Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Science
Centers Indigenous knowledge systems as essential to climate science and critiques extractive research models.
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Earth.Org
Growing Papaya Trees Review
A review exploring Indigenous resilience, climate displacement, and land-based identity through narrative storytelling.
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One Earth
Climate Hero Feature
Profiles Indigenous leadership in climate justice and community-driven environmental solutions.
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Atmos Magazine
Healing the Land with Indigenous Science
Explores Indigenous science as a framework for ecological healing, land restoration, and relational environmental stewardship.
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Atmos
Climate Crisis & Indigenous Displacement
Examines how Indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by climate displacement and environmental disruption.
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Vogue
Could AI Drive Indigenous Knowledge Out of Fashion?
Explores how AI systems risk marginalizing Indigenous knowledge in fashion, sustainability, and design while emphasizing Indigenous data sovereignty and ethical collaboration.
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Teen Vogue
Decolonizing Conservation
Explores how Indigenous communities lead conservation efforts and challenge dominant environmental narratives through relational approaches to land stewardship.
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Ms. Magazine
Best New Feminist Books Feature
A curated list highlighting feminist literature and cultural commentary on gender, justice, and storytelling.
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​​— DR. JESSICA HERNANDEZ, FRESH BANANA LEAVES

“Taking care of nature and nature taking care of us in return is the greatest teaching my father has taught me... nature protects us as long as we protect nature.”
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