earlier this year, Palmer said her work as a marine biologist made her especially happy to be in Juneau.
“I’m really excited to be here between the mountains and the ocean, because this is the biology that excites me the most,” she said. Palmer holds a doctorate in zoology from Washington State University and bachelor’s degrees in biology and English from Colorado State University. She said her priorities include student recruitment and fiscal stability, and she wants to work with local industries to connect graduates with jobs.Palmer was born in India and moved to the United States as a child. She said promoting equity and inclusion is personally important to her.
“I think about how important it is to me that I have a language that I inherited from my family, and how sad it would be for me if I didn’t have that language, because it’s so particular to the way you understand the world,” she said.