Mariela Garcia Arredondo (PhD student, Environmental Conservation)

This fellowship has provided me with the financial support that a regular teaching assistant would provide but also allowed me to invest more of my time in outreach and community work which I find extremely fulfilling and has aided me in the beginning to balance my time as a student and budding researcher. It also connected me with a number of people who come from similar backgrounds allowing me to feel like I belong in a higher education community.