Bio
Iris Hyseni graduated with honors from the University of Washington in 2024 with a B.A. in Global Health, focusing her academic work on Marine Ecology and Coastal Communities.
Her honors thesis developed a logic model demonstrating how policy can influence health outcomes across diverse populations.
While at UW, Iris earned a scientific diving certification through Friday Harbor Labs, where she researched eelgrass growth and flowering rates across dive sites in the San Juan Archipelago.
Iris worked as co-leader of the Ocean Memory Project, and now is currently the social media manager working on the production of the OMP podcast. She is also a freelance writer and diver, with the goal of writing a forthcoming book that aims to bridge human and ocean worlds.
Her research interests center on the intersections of ocean health, environmental justice, and science communication, with a particular focus on how storytelling can advance understanding of human and ocean relationships. She is currently a grad student at University of Barcelona obtaining her master in Oceanography and Marine Management.
