Keona Blanks is a writer and environmental scientist from Hawai’i whose writing interests include conservation solutions, environmental justice, and traditional ecological knowledge. She has worked as an editorial page intern with Honolulu Civil Beat to report on scientific issues across Hawai‘i, and published a column covering transportation, the environment, and Indigenous affairs. She is published in Mongabay, The Leland Quarterly, and Fronds: A Stanford Anthology of Environmental Justice Storytelling. She is finishing her fourth year at Stanford studying Earth Systems and Creative Writing, where she is a Cantor Scholar, Levinthal student studying under Stegner Fellow Dāshaun Washington, and contributor to Stanford Rewired and The Stanford Daily.