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Katie Perkins

Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University

Graduation Year: 2023

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Katie Perkins is a fourth-year student at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. She is studying creative media industries with an emphasis on photography, as well as a minor in natural resource management. She was raised in and around agriculture and has a deep appreciation for the land that sustains our lives here on Earth. Her area of interest within conservation concerns the impact humans have based on their interactions with the land.

She has experience as a staff photojournalist and multimedia editor at Texas Tech’s student newspaper, The Daily Toreador. She also participates in an undergraduate research experience in a natural resource management lab. Through a project on airborne environmental DNA detection, she is working to improve scientific communication and storytelling in order to make academic discoveries more accessible to everyday audiences.

Her passion for storytelling and conservation has brought her to Planet Forward with the goal to spread awareness about the issues facing our world and to make a contribution to finding the solutions. In her free time you can find Katie hitting the road to check items off her bucket list, rooting for her Red Raider teams, or curled up on the couch watching her favorite nature documentary.

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Bite me: Fighting back against invasive species one course at a time

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Bite me: Fighting back against invasive species one course at a time

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Reimagining and democratizing small wind 
Katie Perkins

Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University

The science of science communication
Katie Perkins

Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University

A person walks at a demonstration with a cardboard sign attached to their backpack, reading "Listen to the Science!"
Navigating a new era in agritourism: persistent drought in West Texas causes corn maze owners to reimagine fall tradition
Katie Perkins

Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University

A group of people walk down a path lined with tall plants. Signs on either side of the maze entrance usher maze-goers inside.
Bite me: Fighting back against invasive species one course at a time
Katie Perkins

Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University

Youth advocates rally together as whaling resumes off the coast of Iceland
Emma Montgomery & Katie Perkins

Planet Forward Correspondent | Texas Tech University

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