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# About the Author {-#author}

Juniper Simonis (*they/them*) is a freelance quantitative ecologist at [DAPPER Stats](www.dapperstats.com), a company they created in 2015.

Juniper earned their PhD from the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University in 2013, and has worked post-doctorate as a professional scientist at the [Lincoln Park Zoo](https://www.lpzoo.org/conservation-science), at [Cramer Fish Sciences](https://www.fishsciences.net/), and in the [Weecology Lab](https://www.weecology.org/) at the [University of Florida](http://www.ufl.edu/).

Juniper is a 4-time world champion roller derby skater who competes with the [Rose City Roller](www.rosecityrollers.com)'s Wheels of Justice, currently ranked #1 in the [WFTDA](www.wftda.com).

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### Juniper's Positionality Statement {-}

I am white, middle-class, "millenial", transgender/non-binary/genderqueer/agender female, physically (fibromatosis) and psychologically (complex-PTSD) disabled, single, without dependents, non-veteran, raised-Catholic, atheist, housed, of European ancestry, and from the midwestern United States of America but living in the Pacific Northwest. 
I have lived on, currently live on, or conducted research on the traditional, unceded [lands of many indigenous nations](https://native-land.ca/), including the Potowatami, Kickapoo, Sioux, Oklahoma, Peoria, Miami, Creek, Haudenosaunee, Cayuga, Susquehannock, Kumeyaay, Pennacook, Wabanaki, Kō Hawaiʻi Paeʻāina, Clackamas, and Cowlitz peoples.
My ability to exist, thrive, and conduct research is predicated on a colonialist, capitalist, imperialist cultural system that was built by my ancestors and which I perpetuate, but seek to dimantle.