I’m Mexican/American and also a trans guy who’s an aspiring wildlife biologist, so I appreciate this video. Thank you so much :-)

As a Hispanic woman in the stem filed, I want to say I appreciate this video!🧡

I'm an overweight black bisexual woman who works in an office environmental job, and I'm currently trying to change to a field position, so i definitely understand discrimination. I love your videos

I've experienced my fair share of this too, but I want to share one incident that really set me off like no other. lol. A few years ago, I was working in the zoo ops department at an aquarium. It was first thing in the morning and everyone had just gotten there and we were gathering in the office for our morning meeting. I was the only woman on staff that day. They were talking about new lights being installed over a coral tank that were supposed to encourage more rapid growth of the corals. I was still half asleep and busy trying to get my coffee down. A few minutes into the conversation about the new lights, one of the older guys was like "And Amber is just being a typical woman. Doesn't really care about the science, just cares if it looks pretty." What sucked the most was that I couldn't really do anything, other than fake smile and then seethe for the rest of the day. I'm honestly really disappointed in myself for not saying something back to him right then and there, but I was also a 20 year old who was scared of loosing the job she liked.

Thank you so much for this. I'm in my early 20's and a mixed race Mexican/Filipino American. I am currently entering a PhD program for environmental toxicology and I have faced some of the worst sexism. I am just as qualified as my peers and colleges but I'm constantly treated like I am an idiot. I find a lot of strength is connecting with other who are racial and gender minorities and reading the comments on this video made me feel so much better about my experiences. STEM is for everyone!

Wow! This is such a throw back to the OG videos! As a Mexican/American I really, really appreciate this video ✌🏽

young (university sophomore) east + southeast female asian here! :)

As an Indian trying to make a career in wildlife in the US, this is incredibly helpful and useful information, so thank you so much! ❤️

What an amazing video Kristina

Im black female who is an biology major with a more focus on ecology and a minor in environmental science and i really do appreciate this .

Your channel is clearly underrated. Your content is good and you can collaborate with other KZfaqrs to increase your subscribers . Fight your way upto the top and prove you worth there and don't mind those numbnuts (i.e who does not respect women ). Tschüss ❤️!

Thank you! I appreciate the heart to heart/chat videos like this one

Thank you for sharing your heart, and for speaking truth and calling it out. Your voice is essential, so thanks for being that voice and supporting everyone who ever experiences this. This needs to be shared throughout this industry, far and wide. Thank you.

As a Hispanic women who is also non-binary in my undergrad junior year of studying Ecology, hoping to get my foot in the wildlife field within the next few years, I just want to say THANK YOU. You literally put every thought I've had about going into this field into words and reassured me that even though it's a struggle, I can do it! I've actually had an incident in the workforce where you said when you report sexual harassment or discrimination at work your superior or whoever will dismiss it as something that you misremembered or didn't actually happen. It's just so unfair, so I totally understand where you're coming from! You continue to be such an inspiration for both me and many other people! Thank you so much

I’m so glad I found your account!! You’ve inspired me to switch my degree to what I really love, being in nature and helping animals. Also, I love this message, diversity in the workplace is so important. It’s a deciding factor for me in choosing a workplace and will be a deciding factor for me someday if I’m ever in a position to hire. 💖

As a Non-binary person I often wonder how it's gonna go for me after I finish school and start my career. I pass as male and have worked in factories (all dudes all the time) where they've acted like that. I wear nail polish sometimes and at my last job someone saw it and the whole factory talked about me behind my back about it and even made up rumors about me that weren't true. I'm not technically even out of the closet yet and I'm already dealing with this BS.😣😣😣 Hoping it's better in the biology field

22 year old, female, mixed race Environmental Science student here. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your perspective and support! Thank you sooo much for starting this KZfaq channel! You give me someone to really relate to 💗🌿🌞🌎

Thank you for your words, I was really needed hear that. 💕

I have witnessed this too many times in my seasonal work leading biologists surveying in northern Oregon forests. My boss is female and the majority of crew members I have led in the field are female and they all come out of the season with at least one experience of discrimination or harrassment. Some are potentially dangerous. Thanks for taking time to highlight this dynamic of field work. I hope that some day this will not be as prominent as it is. It is uncomfortable even from the outside looking in.

Your point is well-taken, enought racism. Greetings from Brazil!

This topic is so important and easily overlooked, thank you so much for talking about this 🙏🧡

Black gay upcoming biologist here(sophomore)

Yea new vid!!! Good luck in the field Kristina!!

I am from Brazil. I found your channel yesterday, I watched lots of videos. Congrats for the videos, I liked all of them.

Thank you for posting about this! I’m a white bisexual female starting my degree soon and my husband also works in the STEM field (aerospace engineering). He’s a white male and has come back with plenty of stories from work where he’s noticed discrimination. He fights against it and has said if it wasn’t for the fact that he’s so good at his job he wouldn’t have as much respect with the others just because of that. Which is bullshit.

Love you from bottom of my heart ♥

thank you so much for BEING IN THIS FIELD and not backing down! Diversity is extremely important in every profession.

Blessed to have this channel... So beautiful.. Keep going.. BTW I have a ques,, is there a job which kinda takes you to the natural preserves of the world in ecology Or somthng?

My good wishes with u for doing good in your future

i understand when i was a personal trainer. As a smaller Italian woman was under-appreciated and well completely disrespected being a women teaching fitness

As a woman, I believe we will never get the respect we deserve. They try to say this and that about women being equal, but that's just the political correct, and unfortunately, not the truth. This also applies to biracial people as well. Makes me so mad!!!

Hey K Lynn, probably a vague question but I wanted to know what’s a good science career that’ll help the community/ environment that I’m from which is in NJ I’m in the army but going to start doing online College to set myself up for when I’m done with my 3 year contract. I was thinking of majoring in biology

Does anyone know if she made a video about the Bolivia internship mentioned in her other videos? I think I'm going to the same one and I wanna know what its like.

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I saw your video about Jack the scary guy. I believe everyone should have a pistol, gun of any sort with them when going around in the wilderness. It would be very irresponsible not to have protection when you are putting yourself in a place where any bad thing can happen beyond imagination. Please be safe everone!!!!

My M.Sc Environmental Science degree is going to be completed soon Please suggest something I am interested in forest , nature ...

you deserve respect, people shouldn’t have to be aware of their comments on you because you are a women, they shouldn’t ever give a second thought to giving respect. i’m sorry you go are degraded by the men at your field, you can tell us all we deserve to speak up, but I hope you don’t invalidate your own emotions or voice

My dream job wildlife biologist i would likely to talk to you for more info

It's funny. I'm literally a white male but I look a lot more middle eastern from the russian jewish half of my family. So I get comments too sometimes. Definitely ridiculous.

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You look so pretty

:> I'm curious, though. What's it like as an environmentalist _on petroleum job sites?!_ @,@ I mean, what do wildlife biologists do there? Why do they let you in? XD Government regulation forcing them to? So is it like everyone hates you regardless of race/gender/etc., and then this is on top of that?? @,@