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The Kurt Grinnell Aquaculture Scholarship Foundation (KGASF) was established to honour the legacy of the late Kurt Grinnell, a Native American leader from the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in Washington State, who saw aquaculture as a solution to Tribal food security, and Indigenous reconciliation and wellbeing. Toward that end, KGASF provides financial assistance to Tribal and First Nation students who wish to pursue careers in aquaculture and natural resources.
Goudy, an environmental science student at Heritage University in Toppenish, Washington, has deep family roots in the Cle Elum, Ellensburg, and Wenatchee areas of the state, and hopes to bring to the field of fisheries management, land use, and enhancement her family’s traditional eco-knowledge.
Goudy impressed the scholarship selection committee with her extensive experience and impressive commitment to fisheries and land-management, working as a fisheries technician on Coho salmon in the Methow Basin, raising spring Chinook salmon in the Upper Yakama River Basin, and working part of the year at the Yakama Nation’s Cle Elum, Washington, hatchery. Goudy also has worked on habitat improvement and related projects in the Yakama River Basin.
"We are so pleased to see a hard worker like Ilene Goudy continue to pursue her education while at the same time doing important fisheries work for the Yakama Nation. We are confident that Ilene Goudy will make a significant contribution to the management and conservation of natural resources so important to her Tribe and the surrounding community,” said Jaiden Grinnell Bosick, KGASF Board Chair, in a press release.
