Katy Dix was born in Guatemala and spent about half her life there, but also has lived in El Salvador, Ghana, Maryland, and France. Maryland is her current home base. She double majored and earned her B.A. from Williams College in Political Science and Environmental Studies in 2018. She is currently working on another interdisciplinary degree from Brandeis – a masters in Sustainable International Development (expected graduation 2021). Katy is broadly interested in the relationships and conditions for equilibrium between plants and people, and has pursued several research projects on sustainable agriculture in Central and South America, chiefly caficulture and silvopastoral management.