12. Environmental work creates wealth generation for communities

Data Dialogues

In their full dialogue with Angela, Tico Aran & Darrah Blackwater connect waterways with airwaves, talking through the importance of local knowledge and how to get people to care about the physicality of something that's hard to grasp: invertebrate oysters + invisible spectrum.

In Data Dialogues, we highlight two people working with environmental data and then bring them in conversation with each other. Listen to this conversation on its own or pair it with Tico Arans's conversation in Episode 10 and Tico and Darrah's dialogue in Episode 12.

You can access a transcript of this episode and Show Notes on our website and join in the conversation on Twitter @OpenEnviroData and Instagram @OpenEnviroData!

Albert ”Tico” Aran (he/him) founded Watershed Action Lab, a project connecting local people to the Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida through soil health, water quality, and community action. Tico has worked with communities and people who make their living directly from the land in the United States, Latin America and Asia.

Darrah Blackwater (she/her) is an Indigenous Law and Policy Fellow at the University of Arizona working on securing spectrum sovereignty rights for Native nations. She spent a year of law school working on tribal issues in Washington D.C., and has assisted in building multiple community networks in Indigenous communities.

Angela Eaton (she/her) is the Director of Data Inclusion at Open Environmental Data and host of Data Dialogues.