Michelle Katuna (she/her, European Jewish and non-Jewish ancestry) grew up in Coast Miwok territory in Sonoma County. Since 2012, she has studied sustainable agriculture, California native flora and ecology, low-stress livestock handling, consensus facilitation, soil science, and critical settler-colonial  and Native American studies, and has worked in ecological farming and ranching, pastured meat production, restoration, and education. She is also FFT2 certified to work on prescribed burns. Michelle is currently pursuing an M.S. in Rangeland Management, and PhD in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at U.C. Berkeley, with a focus on Native and non-Native peoples’ collaboration on applied land stewardship, while working part-time for Marin RCD on collaborative riparian restoration designs and implementation.