Lina grew up in Chicago and maintains that Lake Michigan looks just as big as the ocean. They have been working in museums since high school, including the Field Museum of Natural History, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Lina earned a B.A. in Classics from Yale University in 2020, and since then they have worked as an AmeriCorps member in Baltimore, an Alaska Fellow at Mt. Edgecumbe High School here in Sitka, and a park ranger at Sitka National Historical Park. Lina loves big questions, unexpected answers, and exciting connections. Their hobbies include performing with Sitka Community Theater, cooking elaborate meals for their friends, and exploring the mountains with all the enthusiasm of a Midwesterner for whom topography is still a thrilling new concept.