Sanae Hartmann

Sanae is a settler-activist-scholar living in Papaikou, Hawaiʻi (Kānaka Maoli homelands), but working from Susquehannock homelands while pursuing a PhD in Geography at Penn State University. She was trained in political and social science at Humboldt State University (Wiyot homelands). Within that space, she had the honor of learning from Indigenous peers, elders, and mentors how to think critically about environmental degradation from decolonial perspectives. She now works in the realm of biorestoration (partnering with restorative organisms such as fungi, plants, bacteria, etc to heal contaminated land and water-bodies). Broadly, her work focuses on the political and technological dimensions of effectively implementing these biotechnologies in the illegally occupied Pae ʻĀina o Hawaiʻi. Her planned dissertation research applies this biorestoration framework to the context of Red Hill. She currently works within the Maui Bioremediation Group as an internal logistics coordinator.

September 2023