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Faustino Hampson-Medina

Faustino Hampson-Medina

Faustino (Tino) Hampson-Medina (he/him) was born in Washington D.C. and raised in San Diego, California. He is of Winnebago, White Earth Chippewa, and Mexican descent and was raised speaking the Spanish and Ho-Chunk as his first languages. In high school Faustino found his passion for conservation and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) as a byproduct of his frequent visits to his ancestral lands in Winnebago, Nebraska and an IB course called Environmental Systems and Societies. After graduating high school he attended the University of Washington where he studied Environmental Science and Resources Management and minored in American Indian studies. In the first summer at the University of Washington Faustino became a DDCSP@UW scholar as part of the 2018 cohort and followed up in his second summer by interning with the Quinault Indian Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources. The summer following his graduation from the University of Washington in 2022 he returned as an alumni intern to work with the Swinomish Tribe on a camas revitalization project and their climate change adaptation plan. Through his passion for his community, education and protecting Mother Nature, Faustino hopes to cultivate an an inclusive environment for scholars to be inquisitive and explore avenues of conservation and environmental justice outside the norm.

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