Shayle Matsuda

And so I'm looking through this box of papers and found this paper.

And I'm like, oh my gosh.

And I call my mom, right?

And I'm on the phone with my mom.

And I'm like, mom, guess what?

There's this nudibranch that they're studying that they're using to see if they can treat the adult form of cancer that I had as a kid.

which is like mind blowing to me.

Like this organism that I like didn't think I was going to study.

And I don't study pharmaceutical things or anything like that.

But just that like this kind of a group of animals that I didn't know much about before could actually have such like a personal impact on me.

And there's like tons of things out there that we haven't discovered yet.

Childhood leukemia.

Oh, my God.

It's wild, right?

So it's like I was like, it's all came full circle.

But it's those kind of moments where

there you know the reasons to protect coral reefs we might not even know all the reasons yet yeah right and are we gonna lose these opportunities because of like you know it's not because we don't know better but it's because it's like we're not ready politicians aren't ready it's not for a lack of science i should say that we're not making these big changes but i'm hopeful that we're getting there we're getting in the right direction

Yeah, not in the way you would expect.

Everyone thought I was going to grow up and want to be a doctor.

That's a really typical narrative that people ascribe to childhood cancer survivors.