My name is Laura Lane (She/They). I am a social scientist, engineer, and ecologist building a career around regenerative and equitable food systems. I have particular interest in applying a disability justice framework to agriculture and conservation work to reach communities excluded and erased from those spaces. I am an intuitive problem solver with diverse education and lived experience as a farmhand, scientist, community educator, critical analyst, environmentalist, and creative.
Explore my portfolio to learn more about me, about my professional experience, and about my podcast Trash Talk. Stay tuned as I expand my site to include my creative work.
I am from tortillas and high desert breezes. I am from a skillet from the cutting board and the knife from the smell of roasting garlic. I am from rusty brick and mortar from art scattered walls and the audible jazz I am from rosary beads on advent nights from the song of organ chords and the wafts of incense I am from broken ideals of catholicism conservative roots, blue collar boot straps and petrol job security I am from public lands, dirt roads, and trash castles I am from mysterious linages From my mother’s hair my fathers wood shavings and my grandfather’s words to smile I am from “good morning Momma loves you…" and "finish your plate” from red and green at the table I am from clucks, whinnies, and bleats from chicken buckets filled with scraps I am from sour cherries, yarrow, and burgundy boughs I am from tin-can rain dances and drought from slow mending lichen and pinon trees whose long limbs I remember as my own
