A love for marine life
By Chris Parsons February 16, 2021 Naiyiri-Blu Brooker grew up in a military family stationed in rural Germany, far from the sea. Nevertheless, she has been obsessed by marine life since childhood. “I would annoy my family by making them sit down in the living room while I gave them a presentation about any type of marine organism I could. I did that for a very long time. Sorry, Mom and Dad.” After her family moved to New York, she enrolled in Lehman College to study biology. As an aspiring marine biologist, she was frustrated that, except for one class, the program was very biomedica...
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