 My PhD project is about tracking and gathering as ways of knowing landscapes in the Kalahari desert. There I worked with indigenous sand peoples who know how to track and are expert trackers to not study them and their knowledge, but to work with them to use tracking as a way to describe the environmental change and relations between multiple entities in the landscape. I'm very concerned with the rapid environmental destruction happening around the world and disturbance and the roles that humans have played in this and what has motivated me most has been to look for new methods and ways of describing environmental change in which humans are part of non-human worlds. I'm originally from Botswana, which is where I do my research, but at a young age I moved overseas to the US and now I live in Denmark and through my life I've been moving between these different worlds and trying to make sense of them and over that time I've been seeing the environment, particularly in the Kalahari desert, being increasingly encroached upon by a variety of forces, whether that's cattle or mining companies and I wanted to bring attention to that while also showing that people live in these environments and know about them and that environmental conservation and human interests are not separate things. There's so many things that are cool and interesting about being a researcher today, but one of my favorite things is collaborating with different ways of knowing and that's both across disciplines, but also across different knowledge traditions and I'd also say one of the coolest things about being a researcher is being given a platform to describe the kinds of wonderment that we engage with in our daily work. I want to continue work in the Kalahari and I've got a research position now that allows me to do that to now track and follow the movement of natural gas energy or natural gas prospectors as they move through the desert, but in addition to that I want to build and foster collaborative relationships across universities in Southern Africa and in Denmark so that students in Denmark and South Africa or Botswana can learn and collaborate with each other.