How to Start an Environmental Career (Without Losing Your Values) with Andrea Everett

Want a green career but worried you'll have to compromise your values? Andrea Everett from the Pueblo of Ysleta del Sur shows there's another way.

Andrea shares how she turned her midnight business decision into MatriARC PROJECTion LLC, a drone and GIS mapping company that serves communities instead of extracting from them. She reveals why she turns down high-paying work that doesn't align with her Pueblo values, and how that actually attracts better opportunities.

You'll also hear the inspiring story of how a group of Pueblo women came together after Feast Day to reclaim their traditional farming roles. They secured land, built two hoop houses, and are now growing ancestral seeds: Hopi corn for ceremonies, Pueblo chiles, tobacco, and marigolds for Day of the Dead. Healing in community while creating a foundation for the next generation.

What You'll Discover:

How to break into GIS and drone careers

Why staying true to your values attracts the right work

Starting a business with just faith and a grant that showed up unexpectedly

How youth learned to fly drones while connecting with sacred sites and elders

Traditional farming techniques: three sisters planting, waffle gardens, soil preparation

Why healing happens in community, not isolation

The power of starting small, even a few plants in pots

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