Name: Absaroka (Abbie) Mann-Wood

Hometown: Lander, WY

Major: Public Policy with a certificate in Policy, Journalism, and Media Studies

Three topics/ideas/issues that intrigue me: Environmental Justice, power of stories to drive change, educational equity

Interesting/exciting bit of news I read today (or lately): https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/hummingbird-tongues/546992/ on how our understanding of how hummingbirds drink has been wrong for almost 200 years.