Community Conservation Apprentice
Esther grew up in Tianjin, China, her maternal hometown. Her background includes work as the Marketing Coordinator at the San Xavier Co-Op Farm and a Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology & International Affairs from Georgetown University with minors in Russian and Theology and a concentration on Energy & Environment. Her research on climate resilience in Sāmoa shaped her understanding of sustainability as a reciprocal relationship where people and nature provide for each other. Esther is interested in anti-capitalist community food sovereignty, global Indigenous self-determination, and spirituality's role in our relationship to land. She loves bugs and her family, and she believes they all love her back.