Thanks to the support of the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society grant program for graduate students. Questions, comments, or concerns? Email Meghan Shea: mshea@stanford.edu. 

• Christina Crespo has been a member of CLEAR (Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research) since 2020. She is a PhD candidate in Integrative Conversation & Anthropology and an instructor for the Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia. Her research explores how scientists strategically transform scientific practices towards more equitable processes. In particular, she is interested in how practicing feminist science shapes how knowledge is produced and how scientists are made.

• BioJam is a political, artistic, and educational project in which Bay Area artists, scientists, and educators collaborate with youth and communities of color to address historical exclusion of their communities in STEM fields and reframe what science can be. As an intergenerational collective, we co-learn on topics of culture (social and biological), community (cultural and ecological), and creativity. We center cultural practices, traditional ways of knowing, storytelling, art, experiential learning, and community activism to break down the framing that positions these practices as distinct from science. The goal of this work is to realize a future in which the practice of science is relatable, accessible, and liberatory. 

• Dr. Gabby Ahmadia is a director of marine conservation science on the Ocean Conservation team at WWF where she provides programmatic and technical support on a range of marine issues. Gabby is interested in how we better design and implement conservation programs at the intersection of communities and coastal ecosystems (primarily coral reefs and mangroves). She has expertise in tropical marine ecology, community-based conservation, area-based management (i.e. LMMAs, MPAs), monitoring design and implementation, and impact evaluation of marine conservation interventions.