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Bridging Communities
Bottom-up Approach: 6 Principles to Center Indigenous Voices
Excerpt from Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez published by North Atlantic Books, copyright © 2022 by Jessica Hernandez. Reprinted by permission of North Atlantic Books.
The bottom-up approach allows conservation initiatives and projects to come from within the community. Contrary to the top-down ...
Convening for Solutions
Exploring Oregon Marine Reserves with Victoria Moreno
COMPASS's Regional Engagement Fellow, Victoria Moreno, shares her experience working on the Oregon Marine Reserves workshop series.
Tell us about the Oregon Marine Reserves and COMPASS’s workshop series surrounding the reserve process.
From 2008 to 2016, Oregon designed and implemented five marine reserves throughout the state’s coast to protect marine ha...
Announcements
Celebrating Our New Program Directors, Heather Mannix and Heather Reiff!
We are excited to announce the promotion of Heather Mannix and Heather Reiff to COMPASS’s leadership team as Director of Science Solutions and Director of Trainings, respectively.
“Both have been an important part of COMPASS for many years and have been instrumental in strengthening our efforts to help science leaders step into their purpose. Heather Reiff a...
Policy Tips
Which state policymakers are reading your science communication emails, really?
Jessica Pugel is a Research Associate at the Research-to-Policy Collaboration. She studies how to improve relationships between researchers and policymakers with the goal of increasing the use of research in policy, and recently published a paper in Policy & Internet about state legislator email engagement. Jessica holds an M.A. in Psychology (emphasis in Socia...
Announcements
The Growing COMPASS Team
The COMPASS team has grown in the last few months! This year we’ve welcomed six fantastic new people on our team to help us meet our ambitious plans for the future. As fall is a time for reflection, we wanted to ask our new staff members to share a piece of content that has had an impact on their work and life. We hope their recommendations give you a glimpse int...