Kitrea Mai Pacifica Takata-Glushkoff is a geoscientist and dancer from California. As a geoscience graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, she pursues Arctic climate and sea ice research that centers Alaska Native Yupik knowledge of environmental change, through knowledge coproduction and interdisciplinary collaboration. Kitrea double-majored in Earth & Oceanographic Science and Russian at Bowdoin College, then studied at Irkutsk State University in Siberia. Her previous research areas included Mo’orea coral reef oceanography, Greek metamorphic petrology, remote High Mountain Asia glaciology, and Yellowstone cultural resource use, among others. She also regularly dances and performs with modern, ballet, Slavic folk, and Polynesian dance groups. Kitrea is grateful to the PC Fullerton Foundation for their generous support of academic goals.