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Your support can truly help make an everlasting impact by helping The Coe Lab provide once-in-a-lifetime educational and research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students from the United States, the Amazon basin, and beyond.   

Meet Liz Mélendez Rengifo, a prospective graduate student in The Coe Lab!  Liz is from a Shipibo-Konibo community in San Francisco, Ucayali, Peru, where she has spent much of her life in the forested regions of the Amazon basin. While growing up in this biodiverse region where the local perceptions of nature are often embedded with spirit, Liz has embodied a unique understanding of nature and the local ecosystem management practices used to manage the natural resources on which her community depends for subsistence, survival, and livelihoods. Liz attended the Ucayali National University of Agricultural Sciences, where she earned her bachelor’s in science in agroforestry. She is enthusiastic about earning her master’s degree in The Coe Lab, where she will play an essential role in helping to guide the Pacha Nishi Project, among other collaborative efforts in the Amazon basin, seeking to cultivate a sustainable future.

Financial support from generous donors will enable The Coe Lab to support Liz through her graduate educational experience, where she will become a leader in the field, while at the same time, an empowered knowledge-holder in her community, where she will carry with her an integrated understanding of ecosystem management and ecological restoration rooted in the principals of modern ecology combined with Shipibo-Konibo ecological knowledge.  In this context, Liz will be in a unique position to successfully play a role in the development of a woven-science framework that will help guide a sustainable future in the Amazon basin while supporting the continuation of sacred traditions.