That was really privileged to get the opportunity to
participate in youth programming offered by the Arizona Snoring
Desert Museum as I was growing up.
And that really became a foundational piece and
experience and relationships and a lot of the work that I've done
since then, a lot of that pertains to, you know,
conservation here in the Southern Arizona Borderlands,
looking at conservation education, re engaging folks to
natural landscape through concepts of sense of place,
reconciliation, ecology.
It's been so great to get to work with young folks in the
Tucson community and also with here's Mr.
and Desert Museum staff.
One, because I have this connection that's personal and
this deep part of the legacy that is that institution.
And also getting to see these young people that are having
similar experiences, learning, hearing the same stories.
However, you know, the museum's impact is, is beyond just the
campus that it's on.
You know, now we're doing these events in different parts all
across Southern Arizona in, in an urban context.
And that's a really beautiful thing to see how these lessons
that get cultivated in places like the Sonoran Desert Museum
can be carried outward by the community members that it
cultivates as well.