Dr. Otakuye Conroy-Ben: 2019 Technical Excellence Awardee / Oglala Sioux

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 00:00

Dr. Otakuye Conroy-Ben’s environmental consciousness was awakened at a very young age. Growing up in Porcupine, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, she could literally taste and smell the impacts people were — or were not — making on the natural world around her.

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