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Hello, hello. Welcome back to EcoSheek.

My name is Laura Diaz. It's always nice to have you here today. Hope you're well. I'm really excited because today we are speaking with Dr. Jessica Hernandez. This week, her book, Fresh Banana Leaves, Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science, was released and has been so, so well and widely received.

I've been looking forward to speaking with Jessica for quite some time, and I'm so excited to bring

this conversation to y'all today because it is so powerful, and I feel like we cross a lot of

different topics. Let me give you a little bit of background. Dr. Jessica Hernandez is a

transnational indigenous scholar, scientist, and community activist based in the Pacific Northwest.

Her academic background is interdisciplinary, so she has studied marine sciences and forestry,

but generally her work is grounded in her indigenous cultures and the ways of knowing

through her community. She advocates for climate, energy, and environmental justice through

her scientific work and her community work and strongly believes that indigenous sciences can

heal our indigenous lands. We talked today about that concept of healing landscapes, and it was a conversation

that I don't think I have engaged with in depth with such an expert before, and one that really

impacted me on an emotional level, just this concept of people connecting to the land more deeply,

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