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

Laura is a graduate of Cal Poly Humboldt with a BS in Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology. She works in Accounts Payable at CPH and is the social media manger for the North Coast Chapter of the CA Native Plants Society. She is passionate about cultural placemaking for Latine and BIPOC communities in outdoor spaces, scientific fields and environmental studies.

POP Fellow

Samara (she/they) graduated from Cal Poly Humboldt with their BS in business marketing. They are currently the Communications Fellow at Black Humboldt and the Marketing/Business Management Fellow at POP. Samara collaborates on the development of engaging and informative content for various channels, including print, social media, and video. In addition to this they offer organizational tech, strategic planning, systems development, data management, budgeting and grant writing support. 

POP Fellow

Ceshan is a high school senior in Humboldt County, excited about her future college and career pathways. She is of Yurok, Karuk and Tolowa descent and a Yurok tribal member. She is passionate about traditional indigenous foods and medicine, regenerative farming, media technology, and cultural revitalization for indigenous communities. She is an advocate Native women and youth, and for all underserved communities. She works with our cultural foodways and food sovereignty programs, helping on the farm and supports the digital documentation of the work.

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

With a horticultural, natural landscaping and organic farming background, Aerin’s work is focused on Afro- Indigenous land practices and stewardship, climate and environmental justice, sustainable food systems, regenerative agriculture, ecosystem restoration and land/food sovereignty for BIPOC communities. He is a writer, media producer, environmental consultant, and designer, currently finishing his Environmental Studies degree in Community Organizing at Cal Poly Humboldt. Pathways of Purpose theory of change is inspired by his vocational identity development process and unique educational path in Environmental Justice and Advocacy.