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Natasha Fernandez-Preston is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, with an emphasis in Archaeology, at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and an Urban Ethnobiology Fellow of the Society of Ethnobiology. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico, where she completed her undergraduate degree in Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow from 2015 to 2017.

My research interests focus on structural violence and infectious disease, and how we can study this through human skeletal remains. 

When he was four-years-old, Bill White decided he wanted to either be an astronaut or an archaeologist when he grew up. He decided to follow his dream career of doing archaeology as a teenager when he realized he was an inch too tall to fit into a NASA space suit. Since then, Bill has never looked back.

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