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That was really privileged to
get the opportunity to

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participate in youth programming
offered by the Arizona Snoring

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Desert Museum as I was growing
up.

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And that really became a
foundational piece and

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experience and relationships and
a lot of the work that I've done

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since then, a lot of that
pertains to, you know,

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conservation here in the
Southern Arizona Borderlands,

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looking at conservation
education, re engaging folks to

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natural landscape through
concepts of sense of place,

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reconciliation, ecology.

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It's been so great to get to
work with young folks in the

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Tucson community and also with
here's Mr.

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and Desert Museum staff.

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One, because I have this
connection that's personal and

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this deep part of the legacy
that is that institution.

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And also getting to see these
young people that are having

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similar experiences, learning,
hearing the same stories.

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However, you know, the museum's
impact is, is beyond just the

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campus that it's on.

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You know, now we're doing these
events in different parts all

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across Southern Arizona in, in
an urban context.

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And that's a really beautiful
thing to see how these lessons

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that get cultivated in places
like the Sonoran Desert Museum

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can be carried outward by the
community members that it

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cultivates as well.