Clarissa Shane joins CLBL as an interdisciplinary creative, plant oral historian, and Urban Agriculture Internship Program Coordinator. During her Oral History Masters of Arts program at Columbia University, she collected and mapped plant knowledge to create intergenerational connections.  She graduated with a BA in Humanities, the Arts, and Social Thought from Bard College Berlin where receiving an OSUN Experimental Humanities Grant allowed her to do multimedia research in her maternal ancestral land: Paredones, Michoacán, Mexico on human/nonhuman entanglements – how wild plant usage in ceremony, medicine, and cuisine impacts cultural traditions and environmental conservation. While advocating for solidarity building, youth development, and civic engagement in the past, Clarissa was a Humanity in Action Fellow, a National 4-H Conference Youth Leader, and a California 4-H State Ambassador. In her free time, she studies ayurvedic herbalism and likes to ferment fruits and veggies.