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<p>Mary Ellen Hannibal is the author of <i>Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction</i>, the winner of Stanford’s Knight-Risser Prize in Western Environmental Literature, and a Stanford media fellow.</p>


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