Ashia Ajani is an environmental storyteller and educator hailing from Denver, CO, Queen City of the Plains, the unceded territories of the Cheyenne, Ute, Arapahoe and Comanche peoples. Ajani is a Master’s of Environmental Management Candidate at Yale School of the Environment. They are a virtual environmental justice educator with Mycelium Youth Network and a research assistant in Dr. Dorceta Taylor’s JEDSI lab. Their work has been featured in Sierra Magazine, Frontier Poetry, World Literature Today and Southern Humanities Review, among others.