Category Archives: Center for the Blue Economy Fellows

Silvia to WildAid’s Marine Enforcement Team

I knew that I wanted to go into marine conservation since before applying to MIIS, but my first assignment here was researching and verbalizing exactly what my dream career looked like. By the end of the assignment, WildAid had become one of my dream organizations.

So… I’m happy to announce that I will be spending this summer working with WildAid in San Francisco on a marine enforcement publication and helping them plan a world marine enforcement conference!  I’m excited to be heading back to the bay area and to share my adventures with you all!

Check out this video from their site:

Colleen to EDF’s Ocean Innovations Team!

Peace Corps changes people. For me, it meant a career change. After two years working with small scale fishers in the Dominican Republic during Peace Corps, I knew I wanted to work with fishing communities to find innovative solutions that would ensure the long-term survival of their communities and marine environments.

Last fall the Environmental Defense Fund‘s Rod Fujita spoke in one of my classes. He shared about his pragmatic yet optimistic approach to solving big ocean problems. Then he shared stories of exciting ways that small communities in Latin America manage their own fisheries.

I am excited to announce that I will spend 11 weeks this summer working with Rod as an intern in the Ocean Innovations Department at the Environmental Defense Fund in San Francisco.  Stay tuned to hear what I learn, do and how I survive the cold and foggy San Francisco summer!

Alyssum to the WWF Aquaculture team!

It’s my dream job, y’all.  I’ve always wanted to work for the World Wildlife Fund.

Since I started school at MIIS, I have been focusing most of my projects and papers on aquaculture.  I have been working at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch this semester,

and it’s all paid off because now I get to head to Washington D.C. for the summer, working for the aquaculture program at WWF.  Or, as I like to say, the Aquaculture Team!  (Because doesn’t that sound like a super hero group?).