Kwami Alexander

2023 Short-Term Workforce Fellow

Kwami Alexander became a Securing STEM Islands Pathways short-term Workforce Fellow in February 2023. He was a 2022 graduate of the University of the Virgin Islands Biology Program and assisted with fieldwork, mangrove education and outreach in local schools, and stakeholder workshop planning, along with daily tasks at the mangrove nursery. “This experience has really been beneficial to me in so many ways.” Said Kwami. “As a Workforce Fellow, I get to experience the field - how it’s like to collect data on the mangrove ecosystem as well as the different types of mangroves. Being in the field in the different sites, such as the St. John sites and getting to visit the mangrove nursery in Tortola, has really allowed my knowledge of mangroves to broaden because I have learned so much. This type of field work is highly recommended because mangroves help protect our shorelines and provide benefits for the organisms within our reefs.”