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The ocean is our source of life. The ocean touches us in every single second. It is, you know, connected with our atmosphere. The ocean provides resources. The ocean provides oxygen in our planet. The ocean provides so many different things to ispire us even on a cultural or emotional level. 

 

What made you fall in love with the  ocean? Why did you choose this path? 

I was passionate about nature and environment and animals ever since I was a kid. I was always reading about animals, reading about nature, and then I think as I grew up and I decided to start a career in biology. It became really clear to me that the ocean was in real trouble, and that a lot of people needed to really start to think about the importance that the ocean has on our everyday lives. 

 

You have designed and developed dozens of envrionmental initiatives. What are some of the biggest challenges facing our oceans and ocean life right now? 

We are taking all the resources out of it. We are polluting the ocean. We are putting all our waste and dumping all their waste into it. So it is really about thinking of us as our everyday and how we connect to the ocean and how we can depend on the ocean, but we can also shape the ocean. So through sustainable seafood consumption, through making sure that we are utilizing our waste properly, and that is when/how we are going to ultimately stop those challenges, which, at the end, are all about over-exploition/exposition, pollution, and also climate change and habitat destruction. We started building a network of schools. It is called the Marine Educators Network of Northern Peru. And this network of schools started to grow in over 15 local schools in Northern Peru, connecting between each other with teachers starting to incorporate ocean literacy within classrooms, but then building on that, having youth start developing their own environmental projects that benefited their communities. First of all, we work with schools. We partner together with schools and with teachers. And we develop an ocean literacy training program, in which kids learn about the ocean, learn about how we are connected to the ocean, but even beyond that, they will learn about environmental leadership and how to develop their own project. 

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