*How did you come to meet the women pictured in your photos? * I interacted with the women in the picture through my internship with Alianza Arkana, a nonprofit organization in Pucallpa, Peru, which provides resources to the indigenous Shipibo-Conibo population. During the internship, I had the opportunity to help organize a Plant Medicine and…

The worst thing about starting fifth grade, besides everyone thinking I’m an actual new student, is that even when I tell everyone I’ve lived in our town all my life and gone to the same schools as everybody else except I skipped up a grade because I worked my butt off all summer, no one even pretends to be impressed or at least surprised. That I…