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Megan Westervelt is a visual storyteller, educator, and researcher in media for social change. She studied photojournalism and later immersive storytelling and interactive design at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ University, where she currently teaches as an adjunct instructor. As a previous Fulbright scholar, she worked in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador, on a collaborative project with indigenous Waorani communities to create a joint visual storytelling exhibition about the changing culture and environment of the Amazonian region, entitled Wao Mimo. Megan has most recently launched the non-profit organization InitialEyes that will empower other indigenous communities globally to visually tell their own stories and create change within their communities to forward biocultural conservation.