Talia Davis

Talia Davis is a master’s biology student at Oregon State University, studying freshwater plankton, and a trainer in Fresh Tracks, an outdoors initiative for opportunity youth anchored by the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions. Through Fresh Tracks, where she’s further developing mentorship and leadership skills, she attended the White House Tribal Youth Forum in fall 2023 and the Native Youth Climate Adaptation and Leadership Conference in summer 2023. Previously, Davis was a fisheries biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and RAY Conservation Diversity Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. A Tlingit from Kake, Alaska, she graduated in 2021 from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a Bachelor of Science in Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.