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Meet Cheyenne from our Youth Leadership Council

December 16, 2022February 18, 2023 laura

Team Ocean teen leader Cheyenne, age 17, is from our Florida project has found connection and meaning in the ocean her whole life. She exemplifies why youth leadership is important and how the ocean matters. 1) What did you receive from your involvement in Ocean Matters that will stay with you moving forward?I received the […] Read More

Ocean Matters Teen Leader Takeover #7: Sophie

January 24, 2021 laura

What have you been up to since attending the Ocean Matters program? Since attending the Ocean Matters program I have been at home in Washington state and I have been trying to do as many water related things as possible! I live near a lake so I go out on our boat all the time! […] Read More

Ocean Matters Teen Leader Social Media Takeover #6: Cadey Ryce

January 17, 2021 laura

What have you been up too since attending the Ocean Matters program? In 2019 I attended the Ocean Matters program in Florida. I have since graduated high school and moved into an apartment in Charleston, South Carolina where I am studying at the College of Charleston and majoring in Marine Biology on a pre-vet track. […] Read More

Ocean Matters Teen Leader Social Media Takeover #4: Ellie

January 2, 2021January 4, 2021 laura

What have you been up to since attending the Ocean Matters program? In 2019 I attended the Ocean Matters Marine Ecology Expedition in Florida and made some of the best memories I’ve ever made in my life. Since then, I’ve started studying a degree in Marine Biology at the University of Plymouth in Britain’s Ocean […] Read More

City of Ashes

September 11, 2020 laura

This poem by Team Ocean Teen Leader Connor Webb, 17, about his experience doing coral restoration in our Florida Marine Ecology Expedition project, resounds as we think about making meaning from rubble and ashes on the anniversary of 9/11 while wildfires rage. Read More