POP Fellow

Tatiana is a researcher, educator, and community organizer in the Environment & Community program at Cal Poly Humboldt. She is passionate about youth empowerment, food sovereignty, and environmental justice, with a deep commitment to creating joyful, inclusive outdoor spaces for people of color. As part of the Queer Skate Date team and a volunteer with Latino Outdoors, she works to foster connections between land, culture, and community. She believes in joy as resistance and strives to build spaces where learning, movement, and belonging intersect.

POP Fellow

Camello (He/Him, They/Them) is a graduate of Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Cal Poly Humboldt. Originally from Berkeley California, their focus is Indigenous, Black, and Brown LGBTQIA2+ transitional youth with the goals of  food sovereignty and mindfulness. They are very passionate about teaching, community, deconstruction of colonial institutions and fulfill their role as a community educator as a Pathways of Purpose fellow.on goes here

POP Fellow

Damian (He/Him) is a tutor, engineer, and elementary STEM educator. He is a BA student of Engineering at Cal Poly Humboldt with a passion for environmental green design, makers-spaces and sustainable solutions. He is a second year POP fellow, supporting the development of new programming in the STEM fields.

POP Fellow

Sasha (they/them) is a writer, educator, and aspiring ethnobotanist. Holding a B.A. from UCSB's Writing and Literature program, they bring a poet's sensibility to their critical studies of land relations. Now a graduate student in Cal Poly Humboldt's Applied Anthropology program, they can be found exploring Humboldt forests and considering the cosmological foundations of indigenous science.

POP Administration & Operations Manager

Sam (she/they) graduated from Cal Poly Humboldt with their BS in business administration, with a marketing concentration. Serving as POP’s Administrative and Operations Manager, who works behind the scenes on business development, communications, marketing design and strategic planning for the organization. In addition to this they offer organizational tech, systems development, data management, budgeting and grant writing support. 

Art Facilitator https://www.instagram.com/tieshacooper

Tiesha Cooper, A native Californian, born in Escondido CA, draws her inspiration from the rich roots of the Pacific Northwest, and the influence of patterns from nature and the stars. Materializing from a place of confidence and freedom, based on the sheer motivation and awe-inspiring beauty in nature, and mystery of the macrocosm; there are no mistakes, all has it’s place. In this she is fearless and intrigued as every drip of ink, breath of air, and stroke of color emanates an image of nature. Some artistic influences include Salvador Dali, Pablo Amaringo, Alex Grey, Amanda Sage, Luis Tamani, and a multitude of other contemporary artists, who serve as a constant source of creative enlightenment.

Co-Founder & Co-Director

Researcher and organizational consultant, arts integration, project and place-based learning specialist, youth and community development, curriculum, and program designer. Susanne holds her MA and EdD in educational leadership from Mills College, where she focused on nonprofit strategic management, educational and vocational pathways for TAY youth, DEI in educational leadership and community driven solutions models. Pathways of Purpose theory of change is grounded in her dissertation research, a youth participatory action research project (YPAR) focused on helping underserved transition-age youth develop a sense of meaning and purpose through their educational tracks and vocational identity development.

Co-Founder & Co-Director

Writer, producer, journalist, agroecologist and environmental consultant with his BA in Environmental Studies from Cal Poly Humboldt. Aerin is currently a Masters student at CPH in Applied Anthropology, focusing on Ethnobotany. With a horticultural, natural landscaping and organic farming background, Aerin’s work is focused on Afro- Indigenous foodways and land stewardship, climate resilience, environmental justice, sustainable food systems, regenerative agriculture, ecosystem restoration and sovereignty for BIPOC communities. Pathways of Purpose theory of change is inspired by his vocational identity development process and unique educational path in Environmental Justice and Advocacy.