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Activists Around the World: Melissa Cristina Marquez · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I don't kind of
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  Speaker 1: Stephmane never told your production of I Heart Radio. And
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  Speaker 1: we're back with our activists around the world, and Hispanic
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  Speaker 1: Heritage Month is just around the corner. We wanted to
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  Speaker 1: start a celebration off a little early. Uh. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we actually let Shark Week pass before we can actually
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  Speaker 1: discuss all the wonderful things. I know you love sharks.
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  Speaker 1: I do what I do. I must ask, what's your
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  Speaker 1: favorite shark movie? I mean, my favorite shark movie is,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, Jaws. I'd like Jaws too. Okay, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't. I like Jaws, four Jaws, three, Jaws Horse,
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  Speaker 1: but I want everybody to know I really I realized
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  Speaker 1: it's a really bad movie. But a lot of shark
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  Speaker 1: movies are really bad. I think we need to confront
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  Speaker 1: this fact. So a lot of times I watch the
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  Speaker 1: Shark movie. I enjoyed it, but I'm like, I will
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  Speaker 1: never watch the kid probably. I actually have not ever
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  Speaker 1: seen Sharknado. I have seen Sharks, and really I haven't.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's a failure on my part. I
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  Speaker 1: should I should. I know I've seen the one of
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  Speaker 1: the Sharknadoes has the Pope in it, and he's played
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  Speaker 1: by Fabio. So I'm like, how can I not watch that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, how are you doing with your life?
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  Speaker 1: I'm a true shark movie fan. I mean, for someone
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  Speaker 1: who has said I want to have a podcast that's
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  Speaker 1: just about shark movies, you're right, I gotta clean up
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  Speaker 1: my acts, right. Well, you know that's who we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. We're actually going to talk about a
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  Speaker 1: person who actually does have a podcast about sharks and
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  Speaker 1: all things science. Also apparently does movie reviews for shark movies,
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  Speaker 1: and it's actually qualified not that you are not because
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  Speaker 1: you are a connoisseur of movies, so please don't think
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm implying such, but is actually a marine biologists
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  Speaker 1: who studies sharks. So today we are actually talking about
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  Speaker 1: Melissa Christina Marquez, who we've actually mentioned before on our
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  Speaker 1: Shark episode we did, which we re ran recently after
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  Speaker 1: we missed Shark Week. Yes, and I did talk about
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  Speaker 1: for the Revenge in there, so check that one out, um.
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  Speaker 1: And also I think, yes, I think that Marcus should
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  Speaker 1: come on the show and we can talk about something
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  Speaker 1: that'd be beautiful. I think it would be. Marquez is
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  Speaker 1: an advocate and an educator in the marine science world.
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  Speaker 1: The Puerto Rican scientist was raised in Mexico and has
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  Speaker 1: been all over the world raising awareness and educating people
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  Speaker 1: about ocean conservation and marine sciences. Marcus received her Bachelors
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  Speaker 1: of Science from New College of America, masters in Marine
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  Speaker 1: biology from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and
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  Speaker 1: went on for her doctorate in philosophy at the Curtain
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  Speaker 1: University in Australia. That is probably not how you pronounce it.
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  Speaker 1: I am so sorry, but please write in and let
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  Speaker 1: me know. Her thesis focused on conservation of Elasmo branx
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  Speaker 1: um ecology, public perception and legal protection. Marquees elaborated about
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  Speaker 1: her current studies, saying, I'm using drones and cameras to
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  Speaker 1: figure out how sharks use their space and what kind
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  Speaker 1: of oceano graphic processes influence a sharks habitat use. Is
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  Speaker 1: it pH is it the structure of habitat? Is it
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  Speaker 1: the type of prey available? What is going on that
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  Speaker 1: makes an animal choose one area over another even though
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  Speaker 1: it looks the same to us. Yeah, as you can
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  Speaker 1: go and look at her specific studies and what she's
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  Speaker 1: very interested in on her own site, Melissa Christina Marquez
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  Speaker 1: dot com, and you should because she's got some fascinating
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  Speaker 1: things on there. But the twenty nine year old has
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  Speaker 1: been busy with her work and not only researching, but
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  Speaker 1: writing and advocating and speaking and traveling all around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Her history, much like many when it comes to sharks,
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  Speaker 1: can be dated back when she was seven, much like many,
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  Speaker 1: because I think people are so fascinated watching the Discovery
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  Speaker 1: Channel Shark Week. I still have yet to watch the
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  Speaker 1: whole episode because I'm terrified. I'm hearty scared of the ocean.
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of fears. Yes, she stated in
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  Speaker 1: an interview with the BBC. I remember seeing a great
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  Speaker 1: white shark reaching so flying through the air essentially, and
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  Speaker 1: I was hooked. By the end of the show, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, that's what I want to do. I want
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  Speaker 1: to study these animals. Um And not only has she
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  Speaker 1: done that, she herself has appeared on the iconic show
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  Speaker 1: as well. Her story was a bit different and very dramatic.
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  Speaker 1: While filming in Cuba for Shark Week in eighteen, Marquez
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  Speaker 1: was bitten by a ten ft long crocodile as she
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  Speaker 1: was diving to find a hammerhead shark. She told jess
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  Speaker 1: Abel about the incident, saying, while diving in the shallows,
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  Speaker 1: we suddenly saw this big figure and we moved our lights.
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  Speaker 1: We realized it was an American crocodile. We knew that
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  Speaker 1: there were crocodiles around, we just didn't know they were
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  Speaker 1: that close. Towards the end of our dive, when they
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  Speaker 1: were taking out the lights and whatnot, my cons mask
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  Speaker 1: started acting up. I was having a really hard time communicating.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't hear what was going on, and I was
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  Speaker 1: getting sprayed in the face with salt water every now
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  Speaker 1: and then. It was just really uncomfortable. So when my
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  Speaker 1: dive buddies signaled, hey, going up, I'm like perfect. As
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  Speaker 1: he was going up, and as I was about to
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  Speaker 1: go up, I was kneeling on my knees on the
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  Speaker 1: sandy bottom. It wasn't that deep at all, like a stand.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly I felt really hard pressure on my left calf
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, that's weird. I thought that's my fin.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly I started getting dragged backwards and was like, nope,
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  Speaker 1: that's not a fin. Yikes. Her ability to remain calm
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  Speaker 1: during the situation is a credit to her survival. So
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  Speaker 1: the crocodile did try to drag her further, it finally
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  Speaker 1: released her and she was able to go back to
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  Speaker 1: the surface. She got treatment for her leg, but did
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  Speaker 1: have a rough night as infection could occur, so I
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  Speaker 1: had to be put on some strong antibiotics. But she
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  Speaker 1: was able to finish another day of recording UM and
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  Speaker 1: go on to get the full treatment she needed. And
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  Speaker 1: her overall attitudes are one who understands predators and wildlife.
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  Speaker 1: That it was a crocodile, being a crocodile, a predator
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  Speaker 1: living its life. That's always presses me in these things.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go back in the water it was just them
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  Speaker 1: and then like wow, yeah, And actually you can go
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  Speaker 1: and find this interview on Jezebel. There's a clip from
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  Speaker 1: that episode where you see this crocodile and it looks
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  Speaker 1: massive and scary as hell. On here the recording when
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about they did actually release that footage UM
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  Speaker 1: and she showed in her I think on Instagram the
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  Speaker 1: bite marks. It's pretty incredible. And yeah, this this is
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  Speaker 1: what we're talking about is something She is fierce and
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  Speaker 1: talking about as well um conserving and preserving the species
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  Speaker 1: out there, especially sharks. She said in her an interview
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  Speaker 1: about her studies, I'm really interested in seeing what kind
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  Speaker 1: of factors sway our perception of sharks. Why do some
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  Speaker 1: people love sharks while other people hate them? How can
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  Speaker 1: we better foster the sense of coexisting with sharks Because
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  Speaker 1: we're always going to have positive and negative interactions with predators,
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  Speaker 1: It's important that we find the most effective and sustainable
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  Speaker 1: management of these animals that also allows us to thrive
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  Speaker 1: beside them. Uh. And she talks about what she sees
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  Speaker 1: as her role, quote, I'm an ocean ambassador. I think
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  Speaker 1: we need people to combat misinformation about wildlife, nature, usable energies,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole green move May we need science communicators
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  Speaker 1: to take the science and digest it in an easy
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  Speaker 1: manner for the general public to be able to understand it.
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  Speaker 1: And she goes on, what I'm scared of is having
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  Speaker 1: an ocean without sharks because they are so important economically, ecologically,
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  Speaker 1: and culturally. That not having them in this giant ecosystem.
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  Speaker 1: And we were already starting to see some effects that
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  Speaker 1: can have, but on a widespread scale, it's terrifying. To
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  Speaker 1: think of right um and she has done so much
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  Speaker 1: in making sure to bring awareness. She started Finn's Uniting Initiative,
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  Speaker 1: which is quote a shark, skate, ray and camera education
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  Speaker 1: and conservation program aiming to unite finn lovers worldwide. They
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  Speaker 1: go on to say, on their side, our mission is
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  Speaker 1: to provide easy to access information on all sharks and
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  Speaker 1: their relatives worldwide through partnerships with educational institutions and other programs.
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  Speaker 1: And if you actually go to their site, they have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of links for resources and it shows that
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  Speaker 1: she started this in tw to bring about education and
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  Speaker 1: that's not the only way she's been educating. She has
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  Speaker 1: a podcast called Conscientia a zool focuses on quote Native
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  Speaker 1: Latin X scientists discussing their studies and challenges within the
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  Speaker 1: fields and by way, it is an all Spanish speaking podcast,
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  Speaker 1: which is very very cool. They want to make sure
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  Speaker 1: they are highlighting and really bringing out the voices of
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  Speaker 1: the Latino community. Love it. She's also written for Scholastic
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  Speaker 1: publishing Wild Survival and has her own story about surviving
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  Speaker 1: the crocodile attack as well as Swimming with Sharks. Very
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  Speaker 1: cool children's book to learn and educate, uh, the young
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  Speaker 1: young UN's about these awesome creatures. Of course, that's not
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  Speaker 1: her only accolade. She's been named Forbes thirty Under thirty
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  Speaker 1: Science and also named in Styles one of the fifty
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  Speaker 1: Badass Women lists as well. Um, she has been on
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  Speaker 1: many other lists as well as being seen in different
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  Speaker 1: types of articles. She has published plenty of scientific articles
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  Speaker 1: as well as bringing awareness of what's happening today in
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  Speaker 1: the difference seas and oceans and about her studies and
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  Speaker 1: why it's important that we pay attention to what's going
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  Speaker 1: around around the world. Yeah, her enthusiasm is very, very contagious. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's She's great and I definitely want to check out
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  Speaker 1: this movie review Shark movie Review podcast. Yes, yes, and
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  Speaker 1: I love how much stuff she's doing and how passionate
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  Speaker 1: she is. It's great. And as always, if there's somebody
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