Katie Perkins is a third-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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