Karley Rojas, M.A

Cuban/ descendant Taíno-Guajiro

Karley M. Rojas (them/elle) is Cuban, descendant Taíno-Guajiro, and a maorocoti two-spirit trans person; they is also of french and spanish descent. They is a research associate for the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab, and has obtained their M.A. in the Environment and Community Program. Their work focuses on the rematriation of Indigenous ethnobotanical knowledges, supporting the resurgence of Indigenous science and knowledges, Indigenous agroecology and landscape remediation, and community-based research paradigms. They is also an artist, with a focus in ceramics, painting, textiles, tattoos, and woodworking. 

Karley serves in the community outreach and volunteer program, materials creation and publication, general research, and grant writing. This includes the annual report and FSL magazine. They are encarga’o with the ‘Place-Based Learning Practices Project’, under PI Dr. Risling Baldy, which is their graduate thesis project within the Environment and Community Program. They also work in a supportive capacity to the FSL Experiential Learning Laboratory, Wiyot Plaza. In the past, they served as the first staff site manager for Wiyot Plaza, as well as a research assistant. Karley is in their third year of working for the FSL.