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Dr. Jessica Hernandez (Binnizá & Maya Ch'orti') is a distinguished Indigenous scholar, scientist, and community advocate based in the Pacific Northwest. Her academic journey spans marine sciences and environmental physics, and she is a vocal advocate for climate justice and land rights through her scientific and community engagements.
Apr 22, 2022 · Dr. Jessica Hernandez 's new book examines the role of displacement — Indigenous peoples like her father, who was displaced by the civil war in El Salvador, and plants like the banana tree ...
Jessica Hernandez grew up in West Bloomfield, an affluent suburb of Detroit. She is the daughter of a Detroit-born Mexican-American mother and Cuban immigrant father. [1] Her parents lived above her family's restaurant before she was born, and she worked in the family's Mexicantown Bakery [1] from third grade.
Apr 11, 2022 · Jessica Hernandez: One of the things that I always say is that in Western science, we're taught to formulate our knowledges or our facts through this linear process—the scientific method where you make up a question, draw hypotheses and do research to collect data and determine whether the hypothesis was correct.
Jul 12, 2022 · According to Jessica Hernandez, "as long as we protect nature, nature will protect us." Hernandez, from the Maya Ch'ortí and Zapotec nations, is a University of Washington postdoctoral fellow. In ...
About Fresh Banana Leaves. A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology. An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land ...
