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Chandler Jensen's Web of Connections - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 4. My Roots (My Orientation)
        
        3. My Roots (My Education)
        
        2. My Roots (My Home)
        
        1. My Roots (My Family)
        
        My mother’s family can be traced back to two places.
        
        My grandfather’s family immigrated from Denmark in the late 1800s and settled in Idaho, sponsored by the Mormon church.
        🏵️ I can honor this connection by learning the story and context of their migration, and the migration of others across the United States.
        
        My grandmother’s family comes from eastern Oklahoma. I became a Choctaw Nation citizen through my great-great-grandmother, whose birth certificate lists her birthplace as “UNKNOWN, Choctaw, Oklahoma.”
        🏵️ I've honored this connection by receiving newspapers and other materials from Choctaw Nation for nearly a decade; and can continue honoring this connection by learning the Chahta language.
        
        My father’s family can be traced back to the southwestern United States.
        
        My grandparents grew up in New Mexico and Arizona, connected to the Mexican community.
        🏵️ I can honor this connection by visiting New Mexico and Arizona, and engaging with local culture and communities.
        
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        I was born and raised north of Seattle, on the land of the Coast Salish people.
        🏵️ I've honored this connection by recognizing the history and my position as someone raised on the Coast Salish land, and can continue honoring this connection by supporting the events, business, and other causes for the Indigenous people .
        
        My majors are Geography and Informatics.
        🏵️ I’ve honored this connection by bringing critical perspectives on data and place into my own projects,; and can continue honoring this connection by designing systems that afford control to the communities they describe.
        
        Geography taught me that places carry histories, names, and relationships, and every map decides what story is told.
        
        Informatics taught me that information systems are never neutral, and are always a representation of who controls the system, and how they want to describe it.
        
        My other coursework has taught me that a community's well-being and how its information is handled are connected.
        🏵️ I can honor this connection by grounding my research in community-oriented frameworks, and crediting the scholars whose work I build on.
        
        As a freshman, I was a part of Native UW Scholars.
        
        We took a trip to UBC, on Musqueam land, to understand anthropology, American Indian Studies, and archives and museums. It was the first time I saw how institutions hold, and sometimes withhold, Indigenous knowledge.
        🏵️I can honor this connection by carrying what I learned into my own research.
        
        Being a McNair Scholar has given me the guidance and confidence to pursue research and graduate school.
        🏵️ I can honor this connection by sharing what I’ve learned with similar students, especially those who are first-generation and underrepresented.
      - I’ve taught a First-Year Interest Group since sophomore year.
        🏵️I can honor this connection by modeling what belonging at a large university looks like.
    - - My first major project was using graffiti and maintenance to understand how infrastructure was communicated visually across the Puget Sound.
        🏵️I can honor this connection by crediting the communities whose work makes my research possible.
      - My most recent project involves working alongside the Duwamish. We are currently working with a spokesperson to determine what our yearlong project will be.
        🏵️I can honor this connection by letting the Tribe’s spokesperson guide what we create
    - - My first substantive international research has been in South Korea.
        
        This summer, I completed fieldwork in Busan to study "smart city" infrastructure.
        🏵️I can honor this connection by sharing my public-facing output to inform others about what I've learned.
        
        Last week I submitted my proposal and application for a Fulbright Research grant, extending the research I completed this summer.
        🏵️I can honor this connection by proposing work that deepens the relationships I’ve already built, and sharing what I find with the people who made it possible
  - - - Many critical geographers have inspired me to think deeply about every subject I encounter.
        🏵️ I can honor this connection by citing and building on their work respectfully.
      - My closest relationship has been with the faculty who taught me during my fieldwork in South Korea, and have continued to mentor me throughout my application season.
        🏵️ I can honor this connection by personally thanking them for what their mentorship has done for me.
    - - In South Korea, I have relationships with researchers at universities, national institutes, and local city projects.
        🏵️ I can honor this connection by extending the relationship to be more meaningful than just for my fieldwork.
      - I've met faculty and graduate students at multiple schools outside of Washington who have informed and further inspired me to pursue programs that are meaningful to me.
        🏵️ I can honor this connection by passing the guidance I received on to my peers.
  - - - I spent four years studying German.
        
        Which inspired me to study Swedish and Danish due to the similarities.
      - I wanted to learn Russian in order to expand my understanding of different language systems, and spent less than a year studying it.
    - - Spanish is an important language to my extended family and my recent communities at UW, but my father doesn't speak it, so I've had to learn it myself.
        🏵️ I can honor this connection by reclaiming my family's language, and carrying it on.
      - Marathi is an important language to my girlfriend and her entire family, so I've been trying to learn fragments since the summer.
        🏵️ I can honor this connection by learning enough to speak with my girlfriend’s family in their own language.