Oh, hey, it's your sister who is cursed with loving Arnold Palmer's, but cannot say Arnold Palmer's

alleyward back with an episode of allergies that none of us saw coming because this isn't an

allergy that you probably knew existed. In fact, only one otherologist before this may have

used the title and we will cover why. But I met thisologist back in March and we chatted for a while.

I was up in San Francisco doing a panel at the California Academy of Sciences and then we saw

each other again and recorded more when we were both on Catalina Island. She was selected for the

USC Riggly Storymakers program and I was on the island teaching these climate scientists,

including herself, about all of the ups and downs of podcasting. So I got to corner her again and

ask her more questions because she is cool and I like her. So she did her undergrad in Environmental

Studies at NYU and got a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from a place called Cornell

University and then a postdoc at UC Berkeley and she also worked at the California Academy of

Sciences in San Francisco as a research scientist in critical ecology. And this year she won the National

Geographic Society Wayfinder Award. She's also developed this new field of critical ecology and

founded the Critical Ecology Lab which is a nonprofit research center that focuses on how systems

of inequity are messing up the planet. So ecology comes from a root meaning about whose live and

where and critical in the sense has roots in social philosophies that look to figure out and

understand and critique societal power structures and just get to the bottom of why some shit is

fucked up. And those are my words, not hers, but yes, critical just means let's look at this,

shall we? But we will get into it. Before we get into it though, quick thanks to all the patrons

who make the show possible at patreon.com slash allergies. You can support for a dollar a month

and submit questions for theologist before we record. And thank you to everyone who just

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