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Maya Allen presents The Story of New Mexico’s First Black Settlement, Blackdom

Recorded from the Dry Farming Collaborative Annual Winter Meeting February 25, 2021 Freedom through Dryland Farming – In cultivating her passion for plants and algae, Ms. Allen’s research took root at the University of Alabama as an undergraduate studying algal systematics. She went on to obtain a Master of Science degree at Northern Arizona University where she resolved previously unknown evolutionary relationships of the genus Glossopetalon, a small genus of flowering shrubs native to southwestern North America. While traveling across the range of Glossopetalon, her intimate experience and observations of the subtle climatic and topological changes in habitat magnified her interest in species range distributions. As such, her Ph.D. work at the University of New Mexico focuses on how plants cope with environmental heterogeneity and a particular underlying mechanism, phenotypic plasticity - the ability for a single genotype to differentially express alternative phenotypes based on the environment. In returning to her home state of New Mexico, Ms. Allen has also researched the history of Blackdom, the first all-Black settlement in the state, in an effort to rectify the erasure of the Black botanical contributions and highlight the Black botanical experience. Ms. Allen continues this advocacy as one of the co-founders of #BlackBotanistsWeek, a social media campaign that “promotes, encourages, creates a safe space for and finds more Black people who love plants. More information and resources from the OSU Dry Farming Project can be found at: https://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/sm...