In Mexico City, Oma Villagómez de Olivares shared with her family that if she could ever come back to the world after her death, she would reincarnate as un colibrí, a hummingbird. Two generations later, Sam Olivares-Mejia poured nectar into the hummingbird feeders at Warner Parks Nature Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She paused to trace the spots of iridescence as they flicked through the air to lap up the sugared water, and she felt an intense connection to the tiny birds. At the time, she didn’t know her paternal grandmother’s wish, but she knew that her appreciation for the hummingbirds was bound up in something larger: a profound sense of place, a passion for nature, and a drive to make the outdoors, and data about it, more accessible. These days, Olivares-Mejia is an 蜜柚APP Dangermond Fellow, using her background in programming, computational biology, and environmental science to support data management and visualization projects on 蜜柚APP’s Enterprise...