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“I was challenged to be a patient listener. Going on community walks with both Ese’Eja children and adults, I found that it was not always the questions I had planned that yielded learning for me. Learning came more from patiently waiting for community members to share information.... There are
layers of trust. The leaders were generally on board, but many others in the community were not so aware of our purpose.”
—Rosalie Rolón Dow, Associate Professor of Education
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Rosalie Rolon Dow,
UD associate profes- sor of education, helps prepare shaka vines, which release a milky poison that is used to stun fish.
More than just assembling a team from a variety of academic backgrounds, Cox said, each of those people would need to help with many different tasks. The team would be interdisciplinary, and so would each individual member.
“We all had to get out of our comfort zones,” says Cox, a UD alumnus who previously contributed the photos for a book about another endangered group, the Hadzabe people of Tanzania in East