Exhibit

Katherine Quaid is a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla. Her dedication to climate justice is tied to her ancestral lands and communities around the world fighting for a healthy future. She is the Communications Coordinator for the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network.

Jeri Gravlin is a Michigan-raised and now Salt Lake City-based photographer. Her mission is to tell stories through imagery that inspire positive change. She is the Salt Lake City Public Library’s Social Media Manager and Photographer.

Maria Archibald has spent a decade organizing regionally and nationally with youth-led climate justice groups such as UYES and Uplift. She was previously the producer and host of the Sustain podcast with the University of Utah’s Sustainability Office.

Brad Parry is the Vice Chairman and Natural Resources Officer of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. He has fond memories of hunting for ducks in the wetlands around Great Salt Lake with his family — like his ancestors did.

Cynthia Lucero grew up swimming at Great Salt Lake with family. She currently lives in West Valley City. Prior to that, she lived in Tooele for 19 years and has fond memories watching the iconic sunsets over Great Salt Lake on her commutes home from work.

Amanda Lee is a student researcher at Westminster University’s Great Salt Lake Institute (GSLI) under the tutelage of Dr. Bonnie Baxter. She has studied the pelicans on Gunnison Island, the soil on the shores of the lake, and the water and microbes in the North Arm around the railroad causeway. She plans to go to medical school and make connections between environmental health and human health.

Frances Ngo is a queer artist, biologist, and proud multiracial Mexican and Chinese poet who lives in the Poplar Grove neighborhood of Salt Lake City. She is the Manager of Conservation Outreach for the Tracy Aviary where she leads outings such as Let’s Go Birding Together with the local LGBTQ+ community. Ngo says it’s important for the queer community to be connected to nature in a celebratory way where they can be their full selves. Ngo also contributed to this storytelling project by creating the cover art for the Stay Salty: Lakefacing Stories podcast.

Rios Pacheco is the Cultural and History Advisor for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. He is also an artist and illustrator of the book, Shoshone Plants of Antelope Island. Willows, one of the plants detailed, was important for creating cradle boards to carry babies, baskets to carry duck eggs and jugs lined with pine gum to carry water.

Lulu Avila is a snowboarding instructor at Park City Mountain Resort, an ambassador for Solitude Mountain Resort and Coalition Snow, and founder of the Outdoor Inclusivity Project. Avila is passionate about diversity, inclusion, and equitable access in outdoor recreation.

Brooke Larsen is a queer storyteller, journalist, and writer based in Salt Lake City. She currently writes for High Country News, and she is the co-editor of the book New World Coming: Frontline Voices on Pandemics, Uprisings, and Climate Crisis.

Ashley Finley is a birth keeper, writer, speaker, yoga instructor, and educator. She is inspired by the ancestral wisdom of her foremothers, the ever-lasting beauty of nature, and the vivid imagination of a liberated future for marginalized people.

Meisei Gonzalez is an environmental justice advocate and communicator based in Salt Lake City. As the Communications Director for HEAL Utah, he focuses on addressing environmental disparities faced by the Latino and LGBTQIA+ communities.

Muskan Walia is an organizer with Utah Youth for Environmental Solutions (UYES) where she provides environmental justice and direct action training to young people. UYES has organized a die-in and other actions on Great Salt Lake’s shores to bring attention to the crisis and the threats to young people’s futures.

Zakary Cobia has lived in various places on the west side of the Great Salt Lake Basin, including Magna, Kearns, and Tooele. He enjoys having lunch and coffee at the lake. Cobia grew up swimming in Great Salt Lake, climbing on Black Rock and recreating on the salt flats with his family.

Daniel Hernadez, pen name Arcia Tecun after his grandmothers, is the Director of Culture for Tracy Aviary and the Nature Center at Pia Okwai (Jordan River Nature Center). Hernandez is Wīnak (Urban Diasporic Highland Maya) and has local ties to the Rose Park community. He created the Stories of Place ecojustice film series that reflects on what it means to be here and of this place, particularly in relation to Pia Okwai (Jordan River).

Nan Seymour and Sarah May are artists and poets with the Making Waves for Great Salt Lake Artist Collaborative. Each morning and evening of the 2024 legislative session, they held vigil and celebrated the species of Great Salt Lake with handmade bird, brine shrimp, and bison puppets. “We’re making our love for the lake visible,” they say.

Flor Isabel is a mom and community activist who lives in Kearns. She and her kids suffer from asthma due to toxins and air pollution on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley. She is concerned about toxic dust as Great Salt Lake recedes, and she emphasizes the need for more affordable and accessible air filters so people can stay safe on bad air days.

Olivia Juarez is a lifelong Utahn. They nurture Latino/a/e joy and leadership in conserving nuestra tierra pública with GreenLatinos and Latino Outdoors. They also produced and hosted Utah Silvestre, a bilingual mini-series of the Wild Utah podcast.

Amelia Diehl is a writer, musician, and organizer with a background in community based storytelling and grassroots climate justice. She grew up in Michigan where the Great Lakes were foundational to her sense of belonging.

Tea is currently incarcerated at the Utah State Correctional Facility, which was constructed on top of Great Salt Lake wetlands. The prison has had a notable mosquito problem, which has created health hazards. Tea has also experienced dust storms .

Jim Hopkins worked as a brine shrimper on Great Salt Lake for 25 years. He retired last year. Hopkins saw the brine shrimp harvest plummet two years ago when the lake reached record lows. With less fresh water inflows, the lake’s salinity spikes to unhealthy levels for brine shrimp.

Nate and Tara Stireman are land stewards of Steep Mountain Farm in Wellsville right along the Little Bear River. They use regenerative agriculture practices with the mission to build a resilient system.

Sunny is proud to be Pacific Islander. She works with incarcerated people at the Utah State Correctional Facility on the shores of Great Salt Lake. She has witnessed the impact of environmental health issues — from mosquitos to toxic dust — on the mental and physical wellbeing of incarcerated people who have no ability or choice to leave as the lake recedes.

Forrest Cuch is a member of the Ute Indian Tribe. He was raised on the Uintah and Ouray Ute Indian Reservation in northeastern Utah. In 1860, the Ute people were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in Utah Valley and the Great Salt Lake Basin, which Cuch says has led to a significant disconnect between the Ute people and the Great Salt Lake today. Cuch was previously the education director for the Ute Indian Tribe, as well as director of the Utah Division of Indian Affairs. He is the author of A History of Utah’s American Indians.

Nat Slater is an artist, filmmaker, and organizer that works at the intersections of disability justice and environmental justice. They created the Embodied Ecologies project, which brought together artists with disabilities to create work about the environmental health impacts of a drying Great Salt Lake.